Erosion risk assessment for prioritization of conservation measures in Geleda watershed, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 4 Land cover classes and their distribution and C values for the Geleda watershed

Land cover	Area (ha)	C value	References
Cultivated land	22,816	0.15	Hurni (1985); Bewket and Teferi (2009); Tadesse and Abebe (2014)
Forest	186	0.001	Hurni (1985); Reusing et al. (2000); Morgan (2005)
Shrub land	778	0.014	Wischmeier and Smith (1978); Abate (2011); Gelagay and Minale (2016)
Grassland	1471	0.01	Hurni (1985); Morgan (2005); Bewket and Teferi (2009); Abate (2011); Tadesse and Abebe (2014)
Built-up areas	358	0.09	Ganasri and Ramesh (2015)
Total	25,609