Enset-based land use land cover change detection and its impact on soil erosion in Meki river watershed, Western Lake Ziway Sub-Basin, Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 9 Annual soil loss Range and severity class adoption

Severity class	Annual soil loss Range (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹) (Bewket and Teferi 2009)	Annual soil loss Range (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹) (Wolka et al. 2015)	Annual soil loss Range (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹) (Habtamu et al. 2020	Annual soil loss Range (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹) (Asnake and Amare 2019)	Annual soil loss Range (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹) (Kavian et al. 2017)	Annual soil loss Range adopted (t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹)
Very low	–	–	–	< 5	0–5	< 5
Low	< 12	0–10	0–10	5–15	5–25	5–10
Moderate	12–25	10–20	10–20	15–30	25–50	10–18
High	25–50	20–30	20–30	–	50–80	18–30
Very high	50–80	30–45	30-50	–	> 80	30–42
Severe	80–125	45–60	> 50	30–50		42–80
Very sever	>125	60–80	–	> 50		>80
Extremely severe	–	80–85.64	–	–