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Table 4 Land use types and their corresponding C-values of Zoa watershed

From: 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

Land use types

C-values

Sources

Farmland

0.15

Hurni (1985), Adugna et al. (2015), Yesuph and Dagnew (2019) and Belay and Mengistu (2021)

Bareland

1

Hurni (1985) and Renard et al. (1997)

Forest

0.01

Molla and Sisheber (2017) and Yesuph and Dagnew (2019)

Grassland

0.11

Kidane et al. (2019)

Bushland

0.05

Molla and Sisheber (2017)