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Characterizing and mapping intensity of land use in large basins through the concept of land use capability

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Land use and land cover (LULC) planning stands out for listing potentials and limitations to land use aiming to reduce erosion to tolerable limits based on soil characteristics, relief, and socioeconomic aspects of landowners. To demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of agroecosystems diagnosis in large basins through the concept of land use capability, this work proposed a methodology for agro-environmental diagnosis applied to the Doce river basin (DRB) that was validated based on google earth images samples and suspend soil concentration in rivers. The methodology consisted of comparing the land use capability with the intensity of use caused by the LULC. The results showed that DRB is suited for intensive conservationist agricultural uses. However, some regions, are suitable for more intense agricultural activities. The factors regarding relief (slope and recharge) are the most restrictive ones to more intensive use in the basin. Pasture is the main use in the Doce river basin and had the highest percentage of areas used above the land use capability, followed by perennial agriculture and eucalyptus. The methodology of agro-environmental diagnosis based on the concept of land use capability was considered adequate for the diagnosis of agroecosystems at DRB since at a local scale, it was estimated accuracy of 95.5% of the number of exceeding classes in 45 sampled polygons and, at a regional scale, the linear regression between soil use and management index (Ium) and suspended soil concentration in rivers at Hydrographic Regions obtained an R2, RMSEN, and NSE of 0.79, 0.12, and 0.74.

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Source: Alvarez et al. (2014), Abatzoglou et al. (2018), Drucker et al. (2017), and IBGE (2018). D Dense Ombrophilous Forest, F Seasonal Semideciduous Forest, L Campinaranas, NM Contact Seasonal Forest/Mixed Ombrophilous Forest, ON Contact Ombrophilous Forest/Seasonal Forest, OP Contact Ombrophilous Forest/Pioneers Formation (Restinga), P Pioneer Formation, S Savannah (Cerrado), SN Contact Savanna/Seasonal Forest

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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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We thank Brazilian citizens via the Department of Agricultural Engineering (DEA) and the Center of Reference in Water Resources (CRRH) of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa for supporting the researchers. This study was financed, in part, by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brazil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001 and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and is part of first author doctoring thesis.

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    Elpídio Inácio Fernandes Filho, Luís Flávio Pereira & Bruno Nery Fernandes Vasconcelos

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Calegario, A.T., da Silva, D.D., Fernandes Filho, E.I. et al. Characterizing and mapping intensity of land use in large basins through the concept of land use capability. Environ Earth Sci 82, 151 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-10811-8

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