Farhad Zolfaghari; Hossein Azarnivand; Hassan Khosravi; Gholamreza Zehtabian; Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi
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Any Changes in a dry land surface ecosystem will be affected by the climate near the ground or microclimate in the vertical plane. In recent decades' wetland drying cause to reduced vegetation significantly. Assessing Zabol synoptic station statistics shown an increased temperature of this place. It ...
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Any Changes in a dry land surface ecosystem will be affected by the climate near the ground or microclimate in the vertical plane. In recent decades' wetland drying cause to reduced vegetation significantly. Assessing Zabol synoptic station statistics shown an increased temperature of this place. It seems that there has a direct relationship between the changes in land surface vegetation and increases the ambient temperature. The situation ground roll on microclimate has been investigated to illustrate this relationship. In this study we compare and assessment temperatures at depth of 5cm and surface and height about 150 cm and heat fluxes and energy in three microsites with different vegetation cover. The distance between the experiment microsites is about 20 km, and the elevation difference is less than 10 meters. Microsite A with the total vegetation average about 65%, B microsites 20% and microsites C with 100% bare soil. It evaluated the equation ρc_p z_a (dT_air)/dt to investigate the role and effects of vegetation on the ground surface. Data analyzes showed temperatures in the period of study at the C microsites were higher than other microsites. It seems the lack of vegetation in microsites C has a major role in the higher air temperature. In micro site C At 00:30 Am (local time) the air temperature was 3.2ºC higher than microsite A and B. The results showed there is a direct relationship between the vegetation cover percentage and air temperature because of different soil heat fluxes and surface temperature.
sahar sabaghzade; Mohammad Zare; Mohamad Hosein Mokhtari
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Vegetation is an important component of each global ecosystem. Determining of the biomass of plant is important to assess its impact upon climate, soil erosion, and as well for management of natural resources. The aim of this study was to estimate biomass using vegetation indices based on remote sensing. ...
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Vegetation is an important component of each global ecosystem. Determining of the biomass of plant is important to assess its impact upon climate, soil erosion, and as well for management of natural resources. The aim of this study was to estimate biomass using vegetation indices based on remote sensing. The Landsat 8 data of May 2013 and field studies coinciding with field imaging in Marac (South Khorasan province) were used. Tamarix plant biomass measured in 30 random plots of 11 vegetation indices including DVI, IPVI, NDVI, PVI, RVI, SAVI, TSAVI, WDVI, and Tasselcap were used to estimate biomass of Tamarix.Then, using cluster analysis, vegetation indices were divided into three groups among which SAVI, RVI , and IPVI were chosen. The results showed that indexes which consider soil factors are more accurate than other measures. In this study, biomass map was prepared using the SAVI index.
Moharram Ashrafzadeh; Reza Erfanzadeh
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This study was carried out to investigate the effect of crown canopy of Ziziphus spina-christi on seed bank characteristics (density and similarity with above ground flora) in two sites with saline-alkaline and alkaline soils. In each soil, forty plots were established, half in and half outside of Z. ...
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This study was carried out to investigate the effect of crown canopy of Ziziphus spina-christi on seed bank characteristics (density and similarity with above ground flora) in two sites with saline-alkaline and alkaline soils. In each soil, forty plots were established, half in and half outside of Z. spina-christi cover. In each plot, soil sampling was done from 0-5 and 5-10 cm depths. Paired and un-paired t-test were used to compare soil seed bank characteristics between the depths, between two different soils and between in- and outside the tree canopy. The results showed that the density of seed bank in 0-5 cm depths was significantly higher than 5-10 cm depths in both soils. The density of seed in both depths was significantly higher in saline-alkaline than alkaline soils. The similarity coefficient between soil seed bank and above-ground was significantly different between under tree canopy of two soils in 0-5 cm. Soil seed density was highest under crown cover in both soils. The crown canopy of trees in dry rangelands can play an important role in reservation of soil seed bank. Therefore, the conservation of individual trees in these areas should be concerned of the managers.
Ali Golkarian; Davoud Davoudi Moghaddam; Seyed Amir Naghibi; Masoud Eshghizadeh
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Soil erosion is undoubtedly one of the most important problems in natural areas and has a devastating impact on grassland ecosystems. The present study was conducted to assess the ability of Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model for estimating sediment yield on rangeland’s hill slopes in dry regions ...
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Soil erosion is undoubtedly one of the most important problems in natural areas and has a devastating impact on grassland ecosystems. The present study was conducted to assess the ability of Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model for estimating sediment yield on rangeland’s hill slopes in dry regions at Shahid Noori paired watershed of Kakhk. RHEM is a mathematical, distribution and physical model that is capable to simulate hydrological and erosional processes with climatic data and hill slope’s characteristics. Measuring of sediment yield performed on 18 erosion plots in both disturbed and undisturbed rangeland conditions. In order to implement the model, the parameters of climate, soil texture, slope length, slope steepness, canopy cover and ground cover were measured and entered into the model to estimate amount of runoff and sediment yield in each year. The analysis showed no significant difference between observed and estimated values at 5% level in both all erosion plots and the average of measured values of all three different aspects. The results indicate that the model is capable to determine the quantity effects of rangeland conservation practices in hydrological and soil erosion processes. Overall, the present study suggested good potential for application of the model in the same rangelands of dry regions.
Omid Bayat; Hamid Karimzadeh; Mostafa Eghbal; Hossein Khademi
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Despite of suitable geological and climatic conditions for forming and evolution of alluvial fans and importance of this landform as soil and water resources in arid regions, there are limited studies about this landform in Iran. In the present study, evolution and pedogenic development of geomorphic ...
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Despite of suitable geological and climatic conditions for forming and evolution of alluvial fans and importance of this landform as soil and water resources in arid regions, there are limited studies about this landform in Iran. In the present study, evolution and pedogenic development of geomorphic surfaces of an alluvial fan in Eastern Isfahan were studied by using remote sensing, field and laboratory analyses. Results show that watershed of studied alluvial fan was tectonically active and two main depositional events were occurred for fans of Eastern Isfahan. Geomorphic surfaces were identified according to topographic position and pedogenic development. Geomorphic surfaces of studied alluvial fan were identified using topographic position, dissection rate and pedogenic development of soils. Using of dissection index for geomorphic surfaces suggest that this index is more expedient for use in active surfaces. Soils on geomorphic surfaces are calcareous with distinctive carbonates morphology. Results of dissection index are in corroboration with carbonates morphology in soils of geomorphic surfaces. So, morphology of pedogenic carbonates can be considered as an index of relative age of geomorphic surfaces. Usage of clay accumulation index also show great corroboration with results of dissection index and morphology of carbonates and application of this index is recommended for paleosols. Suggested systems for paleosol classification truly able to classify paleosols and application of these modern models recommend for other regions.
Asghar Zare Chahouki; Ali Salajegheh; Mohammad Mahdavi; Sharam Khalighi; Said Asadi
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A flow-duration curve (FDC) illustrates the relationship between the frequency and magnitude of streamflow. Applications of FDC are of interest for many hydrological problems related to hydropower generation, river and reservoir sedimentation, water quality assessment, water-use assessment, water allocation ...
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A flow-duration curve (FDC) illustrates the relationship between the frequency and magnitude of streamflow. Applications of FDC are of interest for many hydrological problems related to hydropower generation, river and reservoir sedimentation, water quality assessment, water-use assessment, water allocation and habitat suitability. This study was carried out in 11 selected watersheds with common characteristics such as the 20 years period, the minimum land use change and similar annual water volume through all watersheds in 3 province of: Yazd, Semnan and Markazi which are located in central zone of Iran to regional flow duration curve. It was extracted Q5, Q10, Q20, Q30, Q40, Q50, Q60, Q70, Q80 and Q90 from 11 Hygrometric stations as a dependent variable were derived from flow duration curve. The flow duration curve is regionalized by using morphoclimatic characteristics of the drainage basin. Using multiple regression techniques, the geographic variation of each parameter of the best fitted flow duration model is explained in terms of the drainage area, length of longest flow, Stream slope, mean annual areal precipitation, course from the divide of the basin to the site of interest. The regionalized nonlinear regression equations are successfully used to flow duration curves at other locations within the hydrologically homogeneous regions of center of Iran. A cross-validation Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency procedure was used to evaluate best fitting of the regional model in ungauged watershed.
