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The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) was used to estimate the annual soil erosion rate of Lesvos Island. To estimate USLE factors, Geographic Information System (GIS) and satellite images was used. Meteorological data from Sigri, Ayia Paraskevi, University hill and Akrasi were used to compute erosivity factor (R). The erodibility factor (K) and...
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... study area is Lesvos Island (1632 km 2 ) located on North East Aegean Sea (Fig. 1). Lesvos is characterized by volcanic geologic formations such as andesitic lava, ignimbritic and also by schists, limestones and alluvial deposits ( Velegrakis et al., 2008). The central part of the island is covered by forest, crops and olive groves habitat, whereas the west part by bare fallow, pasture and maquis and finally in the ...
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... of soil loss equation was 0-24 tons ha -1 y -1 . Table 1 shows the values of USLE factors from other studies. As we can see from Table 1, C and P factor are between 0 and 1. Our K factor values were similar to Lima et al. (2013) values, which were 0.013 to 0.057 MJ mm ha -1 h -1 y -1 . Also, the values of C and P factor differ from others studies (Fig. ...
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