PMID- 33723776
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210727
LR  - 20210916
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 28
DP  - 2021 Jul
TI  - Prioritization of water erosion-prone sub-watersheds using three ensemble methods 
      in Qareaghaj catchment, southern Iran.
PG  - 37894-37917
LID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13300-2 [doi]
AB  - Water-induced erosion poses severe harm to the sustainable development of land 
      and water resources that is essential for attaining agricultural sustainability 
      in Qareaghaj catchment of Fars Province, Iran. This study evaluates the 
      topo-hydrological, morphometric, climatic, and environmental characteristics of 
      Qareaghaj catchment for prioritizing the sub-watersheds that are susceptible to 
      erosion caused by water. We tested and compared a novel ensemble multi-criteria 
      decision-making (MCDM) model, namely the weighted aggregated sum product 
      assessment-analytical hierarchy process (WASPAS-AHP) with prevailing benchmark 
      ensemble MCDM models including VlseKriterijumska optimizacija I Kompromisno 
      Resenje (VIKOR)-AHP and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal 
      Solution (TOPSIS)-AHP for ranking sub-watersheds and determining the most 
      significant parameter that influences water erosion (WE) in Qareaghaj catchment. 
      The outcome of weights using pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) of AHP reveals that 
      normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), mean annual rainfall (MAR), slope 
      degree (SD), and slope length and steepness factor (LS) governs the WE in 
      Qareaghaj catchment. The prioritization rankings of sub-watersheds obtained using 
      the VIKOR-AHP, TOPSIS-AHP, and WASPAS-AHP models demonstrate that SW31, SW63, and 
      SW94 had the highest priority rank with a score of 0.047, 0.69, and 0.477, 
      respectively. The comparison of rankings from the models using Spearman's 
      correlation coefficient tests (SCCT) and Kendall's tau correlation coefficient 
      tests (KTCCT) revealed that WASPAS-AHP had a higher correlation with TOPSIS-AHP 
      and VIKOR-AHP ensemble models. The outcome of MCDM models was validated based on 
      the erosion potential method (EPM), which displayed that the VIKOR-AHP model was 
      better for mapping the erosion susceptibility than TOPSIS-AHP and WASPAS-AHP 
      models. Thus, the erosion susceptibility mapping based on the VIKOR-AHP ensemble 
      model can be considered for developing new strategies and land use policies in 
      order to control WE in Qareaghaj catchment.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza
AU  - Pourghasemi HR
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2328-2998
AD  - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, College of 
      Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. hr.pourghasemi@shirazu.ac.ir.
FAU - Honarmandnejad, Fatemeh
AU  - Honarmandnejad F
AD  - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, College of 
      Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
FAU - Rezaei, Mahrooz
AU  - Rezaei M
AD  - Soil Science Department, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
FAU - Tarazkar, Mohammad Hassan
AU  - Tarazkar MH
AD  - Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, 
      Shiraz, Iran. tarazkar@shirazu.ac.ir.
FAU - Sadhasivam, Nitheshnirmal
AU  - Sadhasivam N
AD  - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of 
      Twente, Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
LA  - eng
GR  - 98GRC1M271143/Shiraz University/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210315
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
EIN - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct;28(38):54188-54189. PMID: 34528211
MH  - *Hydrology
MH  - Iran
MH  - Sustainable Development
MH  - *Water
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Erosion potential method
OT  - Qareaghaj catchment
OT  - WASPAS-AHP
OT  - Water erosion
OT  - Watershed prioritization
EDAT- 2021/03/17 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/28 06:00
CRDT- 2021/03/16 07:02
PHST- 2020/11/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/03/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/03/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/16 07:02 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13300-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-13300-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Jul;28(28):37894-37917. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-021-13300-2. Epub 2021 Mar 15.