

Loss of topsoil and soil erosion by water in agricultural areas: A multicriteria approach for various land use scenarios in the Western Carpathians using a SWAT model. Impact of land use change on the water balance in a representative watershed in the semiarid of the state of Pernambuco using the SWAT model. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, Rome.įontes Júnior, R. Global Forest Resources Assessment, Main report. Dinâmica do uso e ocupação do solo em uma bacia hidrográfica do semiárido brasileiro. Predicting the hydrological impacts of land cover transformation in the humid tropics: the need for integrated research. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 8, 9-35.īruijnzeel, L. Review of Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) applications in Brazil: Challenges and prospects. Urbanization and the natural drainage system–impacts, solutions, and prognoses. Brazilian Journal of Water Resources, 22, 33, 1-12.īooth, D. Simulation of land use scenarios in the Camboriú River Basin using the SWAT model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34, 73-89.īlainski, E. Large area hydrologic modeling and assessment part I: model development. 161p.ĪPAC, Agência Pernambucana de Águas e Clima (Pernambuco State Agency for Water and Climate) (Accessed on: July 2015.Īrnold, J. Tese (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco). Hydrological modeling and scenarios of land use and climate changes in a representative basin, northeastern Brazil. Computational Water, Energy, and Environmental Engineering, 6, 24-40.Īndrade, C. Application of SWAT to assess the effects of land use change in the Murchison Bay Catchment in Uganda. Köppen’s climate classification map for Brazil. Modelling hydrology and water quality in the pre-alpine/alpine Thur watershed using SWAT. Impacts of landuse changes on runoff generation in Simly watershed. The spatial and temporal distribution of land use controls the water balance and sediment production in the MRB.Ībbas, T. Changes have led to increased processes such as surface runoff and sediment yield and in the decrease of evapotranspiration. Changes in land use, over the years, resulted in an increase of about 37% in the water yield of MRB. The grazing land increased in 2017 at a few more than double the area that existed in 1987. Overall, during the last three decades, 76.4% of forest was lost in the MRB. Land use maps for 19 were acquired from satellite images. Two scenarios of land use were analyzed over 30 years, which were: a regeneration scenario (referring to use in the year 1987) and another scene of degradation (relating to use in the year 2017). Input data like land use, topography, weather, and soil data features are required to undertake watershed simulation. The study aims to assess the issue of land-use change and its effect on evapotranspiration, surface runoff, and sediment yield. The study was conducted for Mundaú River Basin (MRB) using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. Land-use change has a significant influence on runoff process of any watershed, and the deepening of this theme is essential to assist decision making, within the scope of water resources management. Land use, Water balance, SWAT model, Mundaú watershed Resumo
