“…Some of these studies examine land use and change (Gündoğan et al, 1995;Başayiğit, 2004;Özdemir and Şenkul, 2007;Çokoyoğlu, 2008;Gülersoy, 2008;Özşahin, 2010;Everest, Akbulak and Özcan, 2011;Savaş Güngör, 2011;Yorulmaz et al, 2011;Kara and Karatepe, 2012;Gülersoy, 2013;Benek and Şahap, 2016;Çolak and Memişoğlu, 2018). Some others considered the classification of land use capability (Akgül, 1994;Türkmen, 2004;Erkoçak, Dengiz and Kılıç, 2010;Atalay and Değerliyurt, 2015;Atalay and Gökçe Gündüzoğlu, 2015;Atalay, 2016;Coşkun and Uzun Turan, 2016;Tekeş, 2017;Tekeş and Cürebal, 2017;Özşahin and Eroğlu, 2018), while some of them examined the relationship between land use and geomorphological units (Şengün, 2000;Taş, 2006b;Ege, 2008;Şengün, 2008;Özşahin, 2011). In addition, a limited number of studies (Çelik, 2012; Öncel, 2016) investigating the elevation and slope characteristics of land use were accessed.…”