Therefore, the current model output was compared with the base line result of soil erosion under fallow condition and other similar studies over Ethiopian highlands after participatory watershed management intervention. Local traditions say the trees contain evil spirits, which have been cast out of human beings, and are harmless when not disturbed, however, when a tree is cut, the spirits enter a person out of vengeance, but in general not to those who cut them down. Former populations in the wadis of northern Somalia are believed to be extinct, and the only other known populations are scattered in the Hadramaut region of Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden. Add your e-mail address to receive free newsletters from SCIRP. 2011). The annual mean soil loss rate for each woreda was estimated and each woreda erosion severities were compared with the tolerable soil loss limit. 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Ras Dejen (4,533m), Bwahit (4,430m) and Silki (4,420m) were formed from the outer core of this ancient volcano. Omissions? In: Pimentel D(Ed) WorldSoil Erosionand Conservation. 0000000016 00000 n where, Sy=Sediment yield (ton) at the watershed out let, E=total erosion (ton), A=Watershed area (ha), Sy=456,415.60ton/year *(1/123,3950.2), Sy=43,762 tons/year. From the gross soil erosion, 43,762 ton/year sediment yields have been estimated at watershed outlet. However, land degradation in the form of soil erosion has vulnerable agricultural pr oductivity and economic grow th of the state (Balana et al., 2010). overgrazing and exploitation of biomass for firewood, construction and other CNR Italy, Firenze, Natali C, Beccaluva L, Bianchini G, Siena F (2013) The Axum-Adwa basalttrachyte complex: a late magmatic activity at the periphery of the Afar plume. Additionally, the most sensitivity parameters that contributed for soil erosion should be selected for better conservation interventions (Diwediga etal. 03.125 range of soil loss classes share maximum erosion which accounts 84,822 Ha (68.7%) and the minimum accounts 1938Ha (1.57%) on>25% numerical range of soil. Acrisols having plinthite within 125 cm of the surface, Other Acrisols showing hydromorphic properties within 50 cm of the surface, Other Acrisols having an umbric A horizon or a high organic matter content in the B horizon, or both. The first type is composed of euritic nitosols and andosols and is found on portions of the Western and Eastern highlands. Human density, however, does not account for grazing animals. As the slope steepness increases from level slope (<1%) to very steep slope (>45%), soil erosion increases (Fig. using RUSEL models. [2], This ecoregion extends inland from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, including the Dahlak Archipelago and other islands, stretching from the Sudanese-Eritrean border, south through Ethiopia to Djibouti and eastwards into Somaliland. The fifth soil group is Lithosols found primarily in the Denakil Plain. The shallow soil depth coupled with the sandy clay soil texture characteristics of Lithosols leads to low water-holding capacity soil which contributed for comparable soil loss with pellic vertisols. Whereas, sub-watershed B has moderate soil erosion. In: Brahimo AK, Vlek PL (eds) Land use and soil resources. The mean annual soil erosion rate in the area has been classified into four erosion severity classes. It is also quantified that from the gross soil erosion, 43,762 ton/year (9.6%) reach at watershed outlet as sediment yield. /ItalicAngle -12 Catena 75:6576, Herweg K, Ludi E (1999) The performance of selected soil and water conservation measurescase studies from Ethiopia and Eritrea. pp 2762. << (Fig. Water Resour Manag. According to the assessment and documentation report of Bekele et al. Because Ethiopia is located in the tropical latitudes, its areas of lower elevation experience climatic conditions typical of tropical savanna or desert. 6 0 obj The low and very low soil loss rate in watershed is attributed to the gentle topography coupled with the terraces constructed through community participation and the involvement of projects like Sustainable Land management project (SLMP). 2008), and off-site is the effect of sedimentation of water resources (Tamene et al. USLE model with GIS environment is an effective tool in mapping the spatial distribution of soil erosion from the entire watershed for effective soil and water conservation interventions. /AvgWidth 441 /AvgWidth 441 %%EOF [2], The plant life of the region needs more study, which has been hampered by long-term political strife in the region. Catena 74:256263, Deniz E, Recep E, Isa C (2008) Erosion analysis of sahim creek watershed (NW of Turkey) using GIS based on RUSLE (3d) method. - 159.203.63.113. Tourism in the region includes diving in the Dahlak islands. where SDR denotes the sediment delivery ratio and area of the watershed. This paper tries to put together soil acidity concept, causes, extent and management practices. It is the specific soil and water conservation practices to reduce run-off speed and increase infiltration Wischmeier and Smith (1978). Solonetz showing hydromorphic properties within 50 cm of the surface. PHAEOZEMS (H)Other soils having a mollic A horizon. The lower value of P (0.1), the more effective the conservation practices. Soilsdeveloped over the lava deposits are mainly lithosols, while regosols are predominant on the Quaternary and pre-Cretaceous basinal deposits. 278 0 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 Geomorphology 57:95116, CrossRef Based on the 30m30m resolution of DEM, the slope of the watershed is classified into 8 classes as shown in Table2 below with dominantly Gently sloping and Sloping followed by Strongly sloping and Very gentle sloping (FAO 2006). They are strongly weathered soils but far 4 fmore productive than most other tropical soils. The coldest temperatures generally occur in December or January (bega) and the hottest in March, April, or May (belg). Cont Min Petrol 166(2):351370, Nyssen J, Poesen J, Moeyersons J, Deckers J, Haile M, Lang A (2004) Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlandsa state of the art. Therefore, the soil erosion could be reduced if the current land use land cover scenario is considered. However, moderate soil erosion in the upper parts of the watershed could be due to the inherent characteristics of vertisols, lack of vegetation cover and terraces which should be given first priority for conservation interventions. Livistona carinensis. Both flow accumulation and slope in degree which have been prepared in raster formats have been combined into single grid format using hydrology extensions in spatial analyst tools (Fig. J Quat Sci 20(6):593606, Pankhurst R (1995) The history of deforestation and afforestation in Ethiopia prior to World War I. 16:447467, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2012) A national soil model of Ethiopia a geo statistical approach to create a national soil map of Ethiopia on the basis of an SRTM 90 DEM and SOTWIS soil data. It shows wide . The only purely endemic mammal is a gerbil, Gerbillus acticola. J Afr Earth Sci 45:478488. A personal overview. 13). 0 0 0 0 0 0 278]>> Chernozems having an argillic B horizon; a calcic or gypsic horizon mayunderlie the B horizon, Other Chernozems showing tonguing of the A horizon into a cambic B or into a C horizon, Other Chernozems having a calcic or a gyspsic horizon. all parameters had been analyzed and soil loss from the area was calculated Summer rainfall is received by the Eastern Highlands and by the northern portion of the Western Highlands; annual precipitation there may amount to 55 inches (1,400 mm). Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: D Agriculture and Veterinary (Article under press), Bekele B, Muluneh A, Wondrade N (2019) Geographic Information System (GIS) based soil loss estimation using Universal Soil Loss Equation Model (USLE) for soil conservation planning in Karesa Watershed, Dawuro Zone, and South West Ethiopia. Am J Environ Sci 11(4):245-255. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajessp.2015.245.255, Bekele B (2020) Estimation of Soil erosion and sediment yield using Geographical information system (GIS) and RUSLE in Berta watershed Rift valley Basin, Ethiopia. 4} *\left( {{\text{Sin slope}}/0.0 8 9 6} \right)^{ 1. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The moderate soil erosion in Litho sols should be managed by applying the practices of increasing water-holding capacity through inter-cropping, mulching. 58,740ha (47.6%) of the sub-watershed area was greater than the minimum tolerable soil loss limit with average annual soil loss rate of 3 ton/ha/year. Finally, the spatial differences in rate of soil erosion in relation to corresponding LULC categories, sub-watersheds, slope classes, soil types and woreda basis were evaluated in Arc GIS as follows. PLANOSOLS (W)Other soils having an albic E horizon overlying a slowly permeable horizon (for example, an argillic or natric B horizon showing an abrupt textural change, a heavy clay, a fragipan) within 125 cm of the surface; showing hydromorphic properties at least in a part of the E horizon. 0000002344 00000 n trailer Orthents are soils defined in USDA soil taxonomy as entisols that lack horizon development [clarification needed] due to either steep slopes or parent materials that contain no permanent weatherable minerals (such as ironstone).. /StemH 78 2019). 1997). Somali AcaciaCommiphora bushlands and thickets, "Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands", https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T30402A95306943.en, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopian_xeric_grasslands_and_shrublands&oldid=1074975412, This page was last edited on 3 March 2022, at 06:03. 0 0 0 667 0 722 722 667 611 778 0 278 0 667 556 833 These outliers are part of the Day Forest and Mabla Mountains above 1,100 m in Djibouti. 2014). CHERNOZEMS (C)Other soils having a mollic A horizon with a moist chroma of 2 or less to a depth of at least IS cm; having one or more of the following: a calcic or a gypsic horizon, or concentrations of soft powdery lime within 125 cm of the surface when the weighted average textural class is coarse, within 90 cm for medium textures, within 75 cm for fine textures. endobj The c-values of croplands (0.15), mixed plantations (0.04), grasslands (0.05), woody savannas (0.08), Savannas (0.09), closed shrub lands (0.16), open shrub lands (0.17), with the mean values of 0.08 with standard deviation of 0.05 and maximum and minimum value of 0.17 and 0.04, respectively (Fig. There are very few permanent watercourses. There are very few permanent watercourses. (2014) GIS Based Soil Loss Estimation Using RUSLE Model: The Case of Jabi Tehinan Woreda, ANRS, Ethiopia. /Widths [ 278 0 0 0 0 889 667 0 333 333 0 0 278 333 Rain falls year-round in the southern portions of the Western Highlands, where annual precipitation may reach 80 inches (2,000 mm). Masters Thesis. Total annual precipitation varies from 20 to 40 inches (500 to 1,000 mm). This could be attributed to mixed plantation of acacia species, Eucalyptus globulus, and cupperesus lustanica. The result reveals that the soil loss ranges from 0 ton/ha/year in flat slope to 38.09 ton/ha/year from steep slopes. This study tried to quantify and map soil erosion in Dijo watershed. 6). 163 0 obj Soil erosion has on-site and off-site effect; soil quality and productivity as on-site effect (Haregeweyn et al. Fluvisols having a sulfuric horizon or sulfidic material, or both, at less than 125 cm from the surface, Other Fluvisols which are calcareous, at least between 20 and 50 cm from the surface, Other Fluvisols having a base saturation (by NH4OAc) of less than 50 percent, at least in some part of the soil between 20 and 50 cm from the surface, SOLONCHAKS (Z)Other soils having high salinity and having no diagnostic horizons other than (unless buried by 50 cm or more new material) an A horizon, an H horizon, a cambic B horizon, a calcic or a gypsic horizon, Solonchack showing hydromorphic properties within 50 cm of the surface, Other Solonchack showing takyric features, Other Solonchack having a mollic A horizon. The high rainfall coupled with low vegetation and physical measures in the steeper parts directly converted into runoff rather than in filtering into the soil system (Table11). 722 778 667 0 722 667 611 0 667 944 0 667 0 0 0 0 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. The second biome is mountain vegetation; it comprises montane and temperate grasslands and covers the higher altitudes of the Western and Eastern highlands. The authors have not declared any conflict of interests. Ethiopia has had a rich variety of wildlife that in some cases has been reduced to a few endangered remnants. RENDZINAS (E)Other soils having a mollic A horizon which contains or immediately overlies calcareous material with a calcium carbonate equivalent of more than 40 percent (when the A horizon contains a high amount of finely divided calcium carbonate the colour requirements of the mollic A horizon may be waived). stream Soil OC was analyzed by wet digestion method (Walkley and Black 1934), and total N was determined by a modified micro- They are often referred to as skeletal soils or, in the United Nations FAO soil classification, as lithosols. Ferrasols having plinthite within 125 cm of the surface, Other Ferralsols having a base saturation of less than 50 percent (by NH4OAc) in at least a part of the B horizon within 100 cm of the surface; having an umbric A horizon or a high organic matter content in the B horizon, or both, Other Ferralsols having a cation exchange capacity (from NH4C1) of 1.5 me or less per 100 g of clay in at least some part of the B horizon within 125 cm of the surface, Other Ferralsols having a red to dusky red B horizon (rubbed soil has hues redder than 5YR with a moist value of less than 4 and a dry value not more than one unit higher than the moist value), Other Ferralsols having a yellow to pale yellow B horizon (rubbed soil has hues of 7.5YR or yellower with a moist value of 4 or more and a moist . 7). Soil textural nomograph is widely used to determine the soil erodibility values. /MaxWidth 1333 The most notable is the Awash River of Ethiopia that terminates in a series of lakes near the border with Djibouti.[2]. The mean slope length and steepness factor of the study area is 0.56 with standard deviation of 0.50 and maximum and minimum values of 78.48 and 0, respectively (Fig. Due largely to political instability in the region over the last 30 years, many elements of the fauna and flora remain poorly known. Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, You can also search for this author in Agricultural land has been classified into six slope classes and combined with land use and the corresponding values have been assigned to each slope classes. slope with Lithosols, Eutric Nitosols, Orthic Luvisols, croplands, bare lands Other Yermosols having an argillic B horizon; a calcic or gypsic horizon may underlie the B horizon, Other Yermosols having a gypsic horizon within 125 cm of the surface, Other Yermosols having a calcic horizon within 125 cm of the surface. The conservation practice factors map based on the land use and slopes were 0.1 to 1 as shown in the (Fig. The Genwarar trees are seldom above eight feet in height, and from a distance could give the appearance or shape of a human being. This erosion has been observed at northern parts of the watersheds (Alicho wuriro. Elevation generally increases westward towards the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. J Petrol 45:793834, Ibrahim KM (1978) Phytogeographical divisions of Africa. The current finding on erosion was evaluated based on the past 10years land use land cover scenario; therefore, soil erosion might be reduced if the current land use land cover scenario considered. The inherent characteristics of soil also influence the rate of soil erosion. 0000017099 00000 n Urban areas in the region include the ports of Massawa in Eritrea, Djibouti city, and Berbera in Somalia. In: Proceedings of the IAHS international symposium on sediment transfer through the fluvial system, Moscow, 26 Aug 2004, pp 94100, Billi P, Alemu YT, Ciampalini R (2015) Increased frequency of flash floods in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: change in rainfall intensity or human impact?. << However, they are unable to analyze the dynamics of sediment erosion and deposition in the watershed as it contains fewer amounts of input data. Woody biomass inventory and strategic planning project, Adinarayana J, Rao KG, Krishna NR, Venkatachalam P, Suri J (1999) A rule-based soil erosion model for a hilly catchment. Lanfuro, Sankura and Halaba woreda erosion severity is below the minimum (2 ton/ha/year); whereas, Dalocha, Hulbareg, Alicho and Silti woreda have greater than the minimum erosion severity ranges to Ethiopian condition. 5 0 obj 0000027218 00000 n The second group of soils, eutric cambisols and ferric and orthic luvisols, are found in the Simien plateau of the Western Highlands. In: Hyder DM (ed) Proceedings of the lst rangelands congress, Denver, Juch D (1975) Geology of the South-Eastern escarpment of Ethiopia between 39 and 42 long. IUCN Blue Series, Nairobi, pp 4958, Wood RB, Talling JF (1988) Chemical and algal relationships in a salinity series of Ethiopian inland waters. After analyzing all model parameters, areas in steeper slope with Lithosols, Eutric Nitosols, Orthic Luvisols, croplands, bare lands and river banks have been identified as the most erosion vulnerable areas. where cell size represents the resolution of the grid (30m) and 22.13 is the standard field slope length; flow accumulation is the number of cells contributing flow into a given cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2005.03.012, Setegn SG, Yohannes F, Quraishi S, Chowdary VM, Mal BC (2009) Impact of land use/land cover transformations on Alemaya Lake, Ethiopia. Soil degradation in the Salinity and sodicity hazard characterization in major irrigated areas and irrigation water . Major soil types and Soil Erodibility (K_factor) map of the study area. /Type /FontDescriptor Nitosols and Vertisols are the dominant soil types at the upper and lower streams of the watershed . Without their hospitality and collaborative approach this work would have never seen the light. The finding was also consistent with the finding of Belayneh et al. Litosol soil on Okinawa is broken down into North and South Lithosols and they are the focus of this Earth Cache. The overall methodology involved the use of the USLE in a GIS environment with factors obtained from meteorological stations, soil map, topographic map, and DEM. 2003). Soil erosion is the main drivers in the world and Ethiopia in particular. Quiz. Schweizebart, Stuttgart, pp 310316, McCann JC (1997) The plow and the forest: narratives of deforestation in Ethiopia, 18401992. The fourth biome is desert steppe vegetation, which covers portions of the Denakil Plain. 0000003545 00000 n Bagegnehu Bekele. /FontBBox [-665 -325 2000 1006] xZr}W#P%!}erH&-;0..+_ C\p0c&g4fi" Gf3{y~"X?P|/sI4$i7"~}tfo rv7WFs+sgoWjY_Tg%YpL`].w57{v=K}/ND*/~^F0Ex'e*$>zJPJp9y,j\jQl:{%`}FhF.qO. Slider with three articles shown per slide. The highest soil loss in vertisols could be due to their low infiltration rates when wet and relatively higherodibility. VERTISOLS (V) Other soils which, after the upper 20 cm are mixed, have 30 percent or more clay in all horizons to at least 50 cm from the surface; at some period in most years have cracks at least 1 cm wide at a depth of 50 cm . Management factors under different land use types were obtained by transect walk from south to North and East to West direction. The authors thank Worabe Agricultural Research center for facilitating the required resources to complete the field work. /Type /Font Quantitatively, an estimated annual soil loss in Jabi Tehinan Woreda ranges /StemH 78 <<4B90884731AFB2110A0020D6E914FD7F>]/Prev 179032>> . There are, however, many hills and massifs, which range up to 1300 m as well as outstanding fault-induced depressions, such as the Danakil, lying as low as 155 m below sea level. Nitosols and Lithosols [16]. /BaseFont /Arial-ItalicMT https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-012-9904-8, Pelton J, Frazier E,Pickilingis E (2012) Calculatingslopelengthfactor(LS) in the (revised) universal soil loss equation(RUSLE) to the Ethiopian highlands, Renard KG, Foster GR, Weesies GA, McCool DK, Yoder DC (1997) Predictingsoilerosionby water:a guideto conservationplanningwith the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation(RUSLE) in Washington. Physical models are models which are based on solving fundamental physical equations describing stream flow and sediment and associated nutrient generations in a specific catchment (Merritt et al. EC was measured by conductivity meter in soil to water ratio of 1:2.5 (Van Reeuwijk, 2006). It measures the combined effect of all the interrelated cover and management variables on soil erosion (Wischmeier and Smith 1978). LS were calculated by unit stream power Erosion and Deposition methods which use both flow accumulation and watershed slope (Pelton et al. Based on the classification, two sub watersheds fell under very low erosion severity classes (01 ton/ha/yr), 22 sub-watersheds fell under low erosion severity classes (15 ton/ha/yr). LUVISOLS (L)Other soils having an argillic B horizon. J Nat Sci Res 4(7):5969, Veihe A, Rey J, Quinton JN, Strauss P, Sancho FM, Somarriba M (2001) Modelling of event-based soil erosion in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico: evaluation of the EUROSEM model. /CapHeight 716 CNRPacini Editore, Pisa, Demlie M, Ayenew T, Wohnlich S (2007) Comprehensive hydrological and hydrogeological study of topographically closed lakes in highland Ethiopia: the case of Hayq and Ardibo. [2] Most of the people have to build their houses with clay to keep the hot outside and the cold outside. Botany 2000: East and Central Africa NAPRECA monograph series no. The characteristics of soil, watershed topography (gently sloping and sloping), lack of vegetation cover, cultivation of steep slope without engineering measures, free grazing and sand extraction contributed for moderate soil erosion. Lack of moisture and shallow profile preclude cultivation of these soils. 278 278 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 278 278 0 0 ( 2013) classified the land mass of Ethiopia into 60 soil types with an area coverage ranging from 1.4 to 208,882 km 2. (2019), who reported that the LS factor for karessa watershed Dawuro zone, south west Ethiopia ranges from 0 in flat areas to 154.6 steeper and longer slope area of the watershed. Copyright 2023 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. Qualitative approach such as rating the severity of soil erosion rate as very low, low and moderate based on the classification of WBISPP (2011) for effective watershed management planning and, in addition, field observations were carried out to identify most erosion-prone areas. Dijo watershed is the largest watershed in Rift valley Basin of Ethiopia. 8 0 obj Planosols having permafrost within 200 cm of the surface, Other Planosols having more than 6 percent sodium in the exchange complex of the slowly permeable horizon, Other Planosols having a mollic A horizon or a eutric histic H horizon, Other Planosols having an umbric A horizon or a dystric histic H horizon, Other Planosols having a base saturation of less than 50 percent (by NH4OAc) in at least a part of the slowly permeable horizon within 125 cm of the surface. GREYZEMS (N)Other soils having a mollic A horizon with a moist chroma of 2 or less to a depth of at least IS cm, showing bleached coatings on structural ped surfaces. 22 sub-watersheds(A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, T, U, V, W and Y) fall under low soil erosion classes which covers 90.74% of the watershed areas. Notable animals in the mountains include the walia ibex, gelada, and caracal. The mountains consist of plateaus separated by valleys and rising to pinnacles. A special thank to Ernesto Abbate, Mario Sagri and Milvio Fazzuoli that introduced me to the beauties of the Horn of Africa geology and geomorphology, to Giovanni Ferrari for his inspiring views and, finally, to Fabrizio Vannacci that faithfully assisted me with his laboratory, field and human skills in such a long endeavor. Practices to reduce run-off speed and increase infiltration Wischmeier and Smith 1978.! 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