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Evaluating Sediment Yield Response to Watershed Management Practices (WMP) by Employing the Concept of Sediment Connectivity

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  • Hadi Nazaripouya

    (Watershed Research Department, Hamedan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Hamedan 65199-99811, Iran)

  • Mehdi Sepehri

    (Department of Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, Yazd University, Yazd 89168-69511, Iran)

  • Abbas Atapourfard

    (Hydrology and Water Resources Development Department, Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran 19395-1113, Iran)

  • Bagher Ghermezcheshme

    (Hydrology and Water Resources Development Department, Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran 19395-1113, Iran)

  • Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa 58051-900, Brazil)

  • Mehdi Khoshbakht

    (Department of Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran)

  • Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram

    (Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam)

  • Vikas Kumar Rana

    (Water Resources Engineering and Management Institute, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara 390002, India)

  • Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh

    (Institute of Applied Technology, Thu Dau Mot University, Thu Dau Mot 75000, Vietnam)

  • Quoc Bao Pham

    (Institute of Applied Technology, Thu Dau Mot University, Thu Dau Mot 75000, Vietnam)

  • Duong Tran Anh

    (Laboratory of Environmental Sciences and Climate Change, Institute for Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
    Faculty of Environment, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam)

Abstract

Watershed management practices (WMP) are widely used in catchments as a measure to reduce soil erosion and sediment-related problems. We used a paired catchment in the Gonbad region of Hamadan province, Iran, to evaluate sediment yield response to watershed management practices (WMP) by employing the concept of sediment connectivity (SC). To do this, the SC index as a representation of sediment yield was firstly simulated for the control catchment that there is no WMP. In the next step, the SC index was simulated for impacted catchment, including some WMP, i.e., seeding, pit-seeding, and exclosure. After assessing the accuracy of the produced SC maps using filed observations and erosion plots, the SC maps using quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q plot) were compared to achieve the role of WMP in reducing the rate of sediment yield. The Q-Q plot showed that there is a strong similarity between the SC of catchments, it can be concluded that the WMP has no significant impact on the reducing rate of the sediment yield in this study.

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  • Hadi Nazaripouya & Mehdi Sepehri & Abbas Atapourfard & Bagher Ghermezcheshme & Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos & Mehdi Khoshbakht & Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram & Vikas Kumar Rana & Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh & Q, 2023. "Evaluating Sediment Yield Response to Watershed Management Practices (WMP) by Employing the Concept of Sediment Connectivity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-12, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:2346-:d:1048548
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