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Table 6 C-factor and P-factor values for the respective land use/land cover classes of Muga watershed, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

From: Impacts of land use/land cover and climate changes on soil erosion in Muga watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin (Abay), Ethiopia

Land use/land cover classes

C factor

P factor

Grassland

0.05 (Hurni 1985; Bewket and Teferi 2009)

0.8 (Hurni 1985; Adugna et al. 2015)

Cultivated land

0.15 (Hurni 1985; Adugna et al. 2015)

0.9 (Bewket and Teferi 2009; Adugna et al. 2015; Taye et al. 2018)

Shrub-bushland

0.02(Mengistu et al. 2015)

0.8 (Hurni 1985)

Forest

0.05 (Molla and Sisheber 2017)

0.8 (Hurni 1985)

Urban area

0.05 (Moges and Bhat 2017)

0.8 (Hurni 1985)