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Assessment of water erosion by Modified Universal Soil Loss Equation (MUSLE) in the watershed of Ribeirão Jacutinga, Rio Claro (SP)

Grant number: 13/06607-4
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date until: June 01, 2013
End date until: May 31, 2014
Field of knowledge:Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
Principal Investigator:Sergio dos Anjos Ferreira Pinto
Grantee:Mariana Morila Oliveira
Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Water erosion is one of the main processes responsible for soil degradation, resulting in loss of parcels of land suitable for agriculture, to the loss of agricultural inputs, and the resulting drift of pesticides and excess sediment to rivers, causing phenomena such as the siltation and eutrophication of water bodies. Such a scenario makes it necessary to perform work of a technical and scientific to provide subsidies to land-use planning, in order to protect natural resources biotic and abiotic. To develop this work is necessary to find a unit of analysis capable of integrating the different elements of the landscape, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. Therefore we adopt for this work the watershed as the main unit studies. From this question, this project will focus on the assessment of surface water erosion through MEUPS (Equation Modified Universal Soil Loss) predictive model. With the aid of maps, remote sensing products, and the use of geotechnology, this study aims to evaluate the Natural Erosion Potential the basin of the Jacutinga river, located in Rio Claro - SP. (AU)

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