Implications of land use/cover dynamics on soil erosion potential of agricultural watershed, northwestern highlands of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 4 The land cover classes and the corresponding C-factors of 2004 and 2014 at Gelda catchment, NW highlands of Ethiopia.

No	Land cover classes	C-factor	2004		2014
No	Land cover classes	C-factor	Hectares	%	Hectares	%
1	Farmlands	0.34	13,882.86	52.86	14,260.95	54.3
2	Grasslands	0.03	7933.32	30.2	1931.67	7.35
3	Shrubs	0.23	2915.28	11.1	8464.5	32.23
4	Forests	0.03	1247.4	4.75	959.31	3.65
5	Bare soil cover	1.0	286.11	1.09	648.54	2.47