Quantifying the impacts of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Identified soil types, colors, and erodibility values based on FAO standards of Zoa watershed

Soil types	Textural classes	Soil color	K-factor	Area in ha
Dystric nitisols	Clay loam	Red	0.25	38,589.23
Orthic acrisols	Loamy sand	Yellow	0.33	13,846.4
Eutric cambisols	Sandy loam	Very dark gray	0.35	5078.38
Dystric fluvisols	Coarse sand to clay	Yellow	0.30	1360.7
Dystric gleysols	Sandy clay loam to clay	Brown	0.31	1027.08