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Soil water erosion assessment in Morocco through modeling and fingerprinting applications: A review

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Title Soil water erosion assessment in Morocco through modeling and fingerprinting applications: A review
 
Creator Lamane, Houda
Moussadek, Rachid
Baghdad, Bouamar
Mouhir, Latifa
Briak, Hamza
Laghlimi, Meriem
Zouahri, Abdelmjid
 
Subject climate change adaptation
soil erosion
 
Description During the last century, a great deal of effort has been directed toward determining soil erosion rates using various methods under a wide range of climatic conditions, soil types, land uses, topography, and among others. Therefore, to better understand soil erosion studies in Morocco, a country with diverse physiography and climatic variations we undertook an analysis of national data of several soil erosion modeling and fingerprinting. The approach used for this research is a review of scientific articles, conference papers and thesis on soil erosion, focusing more on categorization of the different soil erosion models and other methods applied. The results reveal very interesting information as follows: (i) the distribution and frequency level of modeling and fingerprinting applications; the focus was on the north of the country: (Rif 32.89%, High Atlas 32.89%, Occidental Meseta 18.43% and Middle Atlas 10.53%), (ii) The (R) USLE models remain the most widely used models (51,32%) in Morocco, (iii) The support practice factor was severely lacking across the country, (iv) the highest erosion rate is concentrated in the Atlas and Rif mountains; and (v) a positive relationship between erosion rate and geological features, slope, climate, land use and cover, plus other environmental characteristics, as well as measurement and modeling conditions, and a negative relationship with the study areas size and scale. Even though the overall results show a high degree of variability, which cannot be explained by this combination of factors, but is at a minimum partly related to the experimental conditions. This overview research and database are designed to assist in the future assessment of soil erosion and to help define priorities for soil erosion research by providing a state of art for future focused and comprehensive analyses to address this issue of soil erosion in Morocco.
 
Date 2022-08
2023-01-20T21:16:55Z
2023-01-20T21:16:55Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Lamane, H., Moussadek, R., Baghdad, B., Mouhir, L., Briak, H., Laghlimi, M. and Zouahri, A. 2022. Soil water erosion assessment in Morocco through modeling and fingerprinting applications: A review. Heliyon. 2022 Aug 15;8(8):e10209. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10209.
2405-8440
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127721
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10209
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 10 p.
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Heliyon