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Environmental zoning applied to soil and water conservation

Paulo Tarso Sanches de Oliveira, Teodorico Alves Sobrinho, Dulce Buchala Bicca Rodrigues, Elói Panachuki

01/Oct/2011

The environmental zoning for soil and water conservation provides useful information about land use and management. Thus, this study proposes (i) an environmental zoning, based on the combination of Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), soil loss tolerance (T) estimates adapted to Brazilian soils and environmental legislation; and (ii) qualitative-quantitative monitoring of water resources using Total Maximum Daily Load curves (TMDLs). The study area was the Ribeirão Salobra Basin (Terenos, MS, Brazil), located in the transition between the biomes Cerrado and […]