An Overview on the Monitoring of Management Practices and Hydrological Response in the Representative and Paired Watersheds of Iran- Part Two

The present review has been compiled to monitor management practices and hydrological response in 12 representatives and paired watersheds of the country including Tangeshol (Fars), Khamesan (Kurdistan), Dehgin (Hormozgan), Zidasht (Alborz), Shush (Khuzistan), Kakhk (Khorasan Razavi), Kechik (Golestan), Kasilian (Mazandaran), Gonbad (Hamedan), Goorband (Sistan & Baluchestan), Herris (East Azarbaijan), and Tahooneh (Yazd). For this purpose, about 161 studies were used and analyzed. Only 40 sources have specifically studied and compared the control and treatment watersheds. Therefore, it can be concluded that the applicability of the practices results and studies conducted in the paired watersheds have not been adequately described or documented. The first research was carried out in 2001 in Shush and Kasilian paired watersheds and most of them were observed in Kasilian (44 studies) and Kechik (28 studies) paired watersheds. The existence of the least research in Herris, Goorband, and Tahooneh watersheds (less than four studies) can be attributed to their new establishment and lack of extracted data. Most of the studies of paired watersheds in the country were related to the years 2015, 2016, and 2021 with 18, 17, and 17 cases.