Soil Loss, Productivity and Cropland Values GIS-Based Analysis and Trends in the Basilicata Region (Southern Italy) from 1980 to 2013

This paper concerns the trends assessment of the productivity values and croplands values of specific crops (cereals (arable cereals land), vineyards, olive-growing lands) in the Basilicata region at regional scale, from 1980 to 2013, in relation to the soil loss evaluated through the USPED method. The comparative analysis shows the interrelations between the soil loss by erosion and the economic value deriving from the erosive phenomenon affecting the croplands considered.

[1]  Chongfa Cai,et al.  Soil conservation planning at the small watershed level using RUSLE with GIS: a case study in the Three Gorge Area of China , 2004 .

[2]  Gerard Govers,et al.  The crop productivity-erosion relationship: an analysis based on experimental work , 2004 .

[3]  C. W. Richardson,et al.  Erosion and Nutrient Losses From Zero Tillage on a Clay Soil , 1995 .

[4]  M. Piccarreta,et al.  Trends in daily temperature extremes over the Basilicata region (southern Italy) from 1951 to 2010 in a Mediterranean climatic context , 2015 .

[5]  Maria Danese,et al.  Sediment yield and erosion rate estimation in the mountain catchments of the Camastra artificial reservoir (Southern Italy): A comparison between different empirical methods , 2015 .

[6]  Rattan Lal,et al.  Soil Erosion Impact on Agronomic Productivity and Environment Quality , 1998 .

[7]  M. F. Guimarães,et al.  The costs of soil erosion , 2011 .

[8]  D. Tarboton.  A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models , 1997 .

[9]  Domenico Capolongo,et al.  Changes in daily precipitation extremes in the Mediterranean from 1951 to 2010: the Basilicata region, southern Italy , 2013 .

[10]  I. Moore,et al.  Physical basis of the length-slope factor in the universal soil loss equation , 1986 .

[11]  D. Pimentel,et al.  Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits , 1995, Science.

[12]  G. R. Foster,et al.  Predicting soil erosion by water : a guide to conservation planning with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) , 1997 .

[13]  Jaroslav Hofierka,et al.  Modelling Topographic Potential for Erosion and Deposition Using GIS , 1996, Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci..

[14]  W. H. Wischmeier,et al.  Predicting rainfall erosion losses : a guide to conservation planning , 1978 .

[15]  W. P. Miller,et al.  Surface Soil Degradation and Soil Productivity Restoration and Maintenance , 1995 .

[16]  The Environmental Implications of Soil Erosion in the United States , 2001, Environmental monitoring and assessment.

[17]  Gerard Govers,et al.  GIS-based simulation of erosion and deposition patterns in an agricultural landscape: a comparison of model results with soil map information , 1995 .

[18]  M. Piccarreta,et al.  Global change and long-term gully sediment production dynamics in Basilicata, southern Italy , 2012, Environmental Earth Sciences.

[19]  Gary A. Peterson,et al.  Agroecosystem approach to soil and crop management research , 1993 .

[20]  José Luis García Rodríguez,et al.  Methodology for estimating the topographic factor LS of RUSLE3D and USPED using GIS , 2012 .

[21]  R. Morgan.  Soil Erosion and Conservation , 1988 .

[22]  P. Goovaerts.  Geostatistics in soil science: state-of-the-art and perspectives , 1999 .

[23]  Roland Hiederer,et al.  Estimating organic carbon in the soils of Europe for policy support , 2005 .

[24]  I. Moore,et al.  Length-slope factors for the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation: simplified method of estimation , 1992 .

[25]  C. Mannaerts,et al.  Analyzing temporal changes in climate erosivity using a simplified rainfall erosivity model in Basilicata (southern Italy) , 2008 .