Journal of Rangeland

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The main goal of this study was to evaluate the ecological potential for both range management and conservation management based on the current models and EMOLUP model in Firozabad County. We evaluated normal range management potential by considering topography criteria and conservative range management with excluding topography criteria from the evaluation. We compared the results of various land-use planning methods including arithmetic mean method, Makhdoom method, maximum limitation proposed method, the geometric mean method, eco- socioeconomic model of land-use planning (EMOLUP), the calibrated version of EMOLUP, simple weight arithmetic mean, weight arithmetic mean with considering limiting factors and its calibrated method. We used four indices to evaluate the accuracy of the models including kappa coefficient, overall accuracy, and average accuracy. Results indicated that EMOLUP and its calibrated version were the best methods for land-use planning for normal range management and conservative range management, as these methods had the highest Kappa coefficient and overall accuracy. The Makhdom method yields the lowest accuracy with a kappa coefficient of zero in determining the ecological potential for range management in the study area.

Keywords: Makhdoom model, geometric mean, arithmetic mean, maximum limitation model, EMOLUP.

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