Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes and Rangeland and Forest Degradation on Flooding Using Watershed Modeling System

Subject Areas : Hydrology

Nafiseh Moghadasi ¹ , Iman Karimirad ² , Vahedberdi Sheikh ³

1 - Gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources
2 - University of Tehran
3 - Gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources

Received: 2015-10-24 Accepted : 2016-08-20 Published : 2017-04-01

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