Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Analysis of Landuse Changes on Land Degradation and Desertification in Coastal Regions of Southern Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Sayyed Alireza Hosseini 1
Hassan Khosravi 2
Hamid Gholami 3
Yahya Esmaeilpour 4
Artemi Cerda 5

1 PhD student in Desertification, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hormozgan Universit

2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran

3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hormozgan University

4 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hormozgan University

5 Professor, Department of Soil Erosion, University of Valencia - Spain

https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2020.294312.1444
Abstract
In this study, land use change trend in coastal areas of south of Iran, including Sistan Baluchestan, Hormozgan, Bushehr were studied during 31 years (1988-2019). Landsat satellite images including TM, ETM +, OLI were used for this purpose. The maximum likelihood method was also used to classify satellite images. Vegetation indices (SAVI) and salinity index (SI1) were used to influence land use classes on land degradation and desertification. The results of land use change trend showed that Changes in land use classes of man-made areas and saline lands as the most dynamic land use classes followed an increasing trend of 2.72% and 1.14%, respectively. The results of multivariate regression analysis showed that three vegetation, saline and man-made variables, and four vegetation, saline, man-made and sandy areas explain 22.3% and 37.8% of the dependent variables of vegetation and salinity indices, respectively. Therefore, in more than 60% of changes, other environmental variables are affected. Hence, with respect to the results of land use area and regression analysis and the mean trend of SAVI and SI1 changes, where vegetation and SAVI classes show decreasing trend and saline land and SI1 classes have increasing trend, it can be concluded that land use changes is phenomena that changes ecosystem services with almost irreversible impacts. This will have nothing to do with disturbing the ecosystem balance and intensifying land degradation in coastal areas.

Keywords

Land Degradation
Land Use
Regression Model
SAVI
SI1
Persian Gulf
Journal of Range and Watershed Managment
Volume 73, Issue 2
Summer 2020
Pages 305-320

  • Receive Date 18 December 2019
  • Revise Date 05 July 2020
  • Accept Date 05 July 2020
  • Publish Date 22 August 2020

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