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Impacts of land use changes on soil erosion in Pa Deng sub-district, adjacent area of Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand

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  • Saowanee WIJITKOSUM

    (Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)

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Soil erosion has been considered as the primary cause of soil degradation since soil erosion leads to the loss of topsoil and soil organic matters which are essential for the growing of plants. Land use, which relates to land cover, is one of the influential factors that affect soil erosion. In this study, impacts of land use changes on soil erosion in Pa Deng sub-district, adjacent area of Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand, were investigated by applying remote sensing technique, geographical information system (GIS) and the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). The study results revealed that land use changes in terms of area size and pattern influenced the soil erosion risk in Pa Deng in the 1990-2010 period. The area with smaller land cover obviously showed the high risk of soil erosion than the larger land cover did.

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  • Saowanee WIJITKOSUM, 2012. "Impacts of land use changes on soil erosion in Pa Deng sub-district, adjacent area of Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand," Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 7(1), pages 10-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlswr:v:7:y:2012:i:1:id:32-2011-swr
    DOI: 10.17221/32/2011-SWR
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    1. Saowanee WIJITKOSUM, 2018. "Fuzzy AHP for drought risk assessment in Lam Ta Kong watershed, the north-eastern region of Thailand," Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 13(4), pages 218-225.
    2. Julio PÉREZ-SÁNCHEZ & Javier SENENT-APARICIO, 2016. "Estimating rainfall erositivity in semiarid regions. Comparison of expressions and parameters using data from the Guadalentín Basin (SE Spain)," Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 11(2), pages 75-82.
    3. Anthony I. IWARA, 2014. "Evaluation of the variability in runoff and sediment loss in successional fallow vegetation of Southern Nigeria," Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 9(2), pages 77-82.
    4. María Isabel DELGADO & Fernanda Julia GASPARI & Eduardo Emilio KRUSE, 2015. "Land use changes and sediment yield on a hilly watershed in Central-East Argentina," Soil and Water Research, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 10(3), pages 189-197.

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