Assessing soil erosion and its drivers in agricultural landscapes: a case study in southern Bahia, Brazil
Mathurin François,
Maria Carolina Gonçalves Pontes,
Rodrigo Nogueira de Vasconcelos
et al.
Abstract:Erosion is a worldwide threat to biodiversity conservation and agricultural yield, and it is linked to deforestation. In this study, we aim to assess soil loss in landscapes of Cachoeira River watershed, in southern Bahia, northeastern Brazil. We estimate the role of forests in diminishing soil erosion using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). We compare real and simulated scenarios in which the forest was replaced by agricultural use, also comparing estimates of erosivity factor (R factor) deriv… Show more
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