Dusko Vujacic

University of Montenegro | UCG

The paper deals with the demographic development of the northernmost municipality in Montenegro, with a special emphasis on migration trends, which have intensified since the second half of the last century. The municipality of Pljevlja is specific in this regard because it had the highest growth in emigration since the beginning of the 21 st centu...

This work aims to determine the current state of sediment production and propose land use measures that will affect the reducing the intensity of soil erosion for the areas of the Polimlje drainage basin on the territories of Montenegro and Serbia, and the small Shirindareh sub-basin of Iran. The approach is based on field and laboratory methods, w...

The Montenegrin coast, thanks to its hydrological characteristics of surface and groundwater, is a very interesting area. It shows an obvious example of the mutual influence of climatic characteristics on the geological base, which manifested itself in almost all its variations. In this relatively narrow space, the characteristics of water behavior...

This paper presents the author's aspiration to determine a connection between cartography and sports. Cartography, created even before the advent of writing, allowed man to portray a part of the space in which he lived. This way of connecting cartography with other scientific disciplines has been done on several occasions. Its connection with, for...

The Montenegrin coast is a separate entity with very specific characteristics. Bound by the chain Orjen–Lovcen–Sutorman–Rumija, it has formed a special area that has characteristics that no other relief unit has. Similarities exist, but the zone at the contact of land and sea has developed special characteristics. The relief shape, which dominates...

Land use change in all river basins leads to changes in hydrologic response, soil erosion, and sediment dynamics characteristics. Those changes are often viewed as the main cause of accelerated erosion rates. We studied the impact of land use changes on soil erosion processes in one of the watersheds in Montenegro: the Miocki Potok, using this wate...

The landscape of Montenegro is very interesting; reach with its hydrographic features. In a relatively small territory, a great variety of hydrographic forms have been formed which resulted from the interaction of several elements. The complex geological composition, specific relief forms and climatic conditions are the main factors that caused the...

Global change refers to planetary-scale changes of the land, oceans, atmosphere, the planet's natural cycles and processes. These constituent parts of the Earth systems influence one another and now includes human society, so global change also refers to large-scale changes in society and the subsequent effects on the environment. This situation of...

Application of empirical models is inevitable because of the complexity of process, features, spatial and temporal variation of soil erosion and non-existence or lack of associated data. In the present study, maximum outflow and soil erosion intensity were predicted for Khamsan representative watershed in West of Iran, using IntEro model. The resul...

Lake Skadar/Shkodra is the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula, located in the Western Balkans with approximately 65% of its surface belonging to Montenegro and around 35% to Albania. The lake consists of two parts which correspond to the two circulation systems within the lake: the smaller part, Vučko blato, in the northwest and the larger, main...

Soil erosion is a growing problem within the Mountainous region of North Montenegro and Southwest Serbia being a very serious threat to soil quality of the agricultural land. We used IntErO model for the assessment of sediment yield and runoff in the Sekularska Rijeka river basin from the Northeast Montenegro. The studied area is characterized by t...

Land Degradation caused by soil erosion is complex phenomenon, generated from interactions of physical, biological and chemical processes. Biogeochemical reactions, transforming rock to soil, are frequently influenced by the physical processes, and water is one of the main causative agents of crushing of rocks and of the formation of fractures. Fur...

Sediment is a final result of erosion playing an important role in sustainable development of water resource system, controlling riverine hydrology, morphology, ecology, and water quality. A comprehensive approach estimating sediment yield from a watershed is needed to develop proper measures for mitigating sediment disasters and assessing downstre...

Demographic movements in Montenegro are the result of natural and mechanical movements conditioned by various factors, but the crucial ones were: for the natural movement downward trend in the birth rate, which started in the 70's in the city and later in rural areas, and for the mechanical movement, industrialisation was crucial, industrialisation...

Soil erosion models have been developed to estimate soil erosion intensity and to quantify the volume of sediment, a final result of soil erosion processes. We used the River Basin erosion model of Spalevic, which is based on the Erosion Potential Method of Garilovic to estimate sediment yield from the S 5-1 catchment of the Shirindareh Watershed f...

The area of research is the zone of low, medium and high mountains and ridges with canyon and cliff valleys, that are mainly cut into mesozoic limestones, belonging to the municipality of Savnik. The dissection of the relief of this area is especially emphasized with the uneven width and height of the mountain ridges, limestone valleys and the Koma...

The Lower Zeta Basin is located in the central part of central Montenegro. The geographic coordinates of this area are 18º 56 'and 19º 45' east longitude and 42º 27 'and 42º 45' north latitude. The bottom of the valley of the Zeta River, Bjelopavlica Plain, is located predominantly at 45 - 50 m.n.v. And it accounts for 25% of the total territory of...

This paper presents an Ecological-Economic (Eco-Eco) modelling using the Intensity of Erosion and Outflow (IntErO) model for calculation of sediment yield and runoff assessing the impacts of different land covers on soil erosion intensity. Calculations have been made for the Velicka River basin, which is one of 57 sub-basins of the Lim River in the...

Land Degradation caused by soil erosion is complex phenomenon, generated from interactions of physical, biological and chemical processes. Biogeochemical reactions, transforming rock to soil, are frequently influenced by the physical processes, and water is one of the main causative agents of crushing of rocks and of the formation of fractures. Fur...

The subject of this paper is the systematization and precise identification of the structure of river networks in Montenegro in both planimetric and hypsometric dimensions, using cartometry. This includes the precise determination of the morphometric parameters of river flows, their numerical display, graphical display, and documentation. This allo...

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF AGING OF MONTENEGRIN POPULATION D. Mijanovica, M. Brajuskovica, D. Vujacica and V. Spalevica * a Faculty of Philosophy, Geography, University of Montenegro, Niksic, Montenegro * Corresponding author email address: velibor.spalevic@ac.me Abstract. Demographic movements in Montenegro are the result of natural and mechanical mo...

CALCULATION OF SEDIMENT YIELD USING THE “RIVER BASIN” AND “SURFACE AND DISTANCE” MODELS: A CASE STUDY OF THE SHEREMETSKI POTOK WATERSHED, MONTENEGRO D. Vujacic a, G. Barovic a, V. Djekovic b, A. Andjelkovic b, A Khaledi Darvishan c, L. Gholami d, M. Jovanovic e and V. Spalevic a a Geography Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Monteneg...

Demographic movements in Montenegro are the result of natural and mechanical movements conditioned by various factors, but the crucial ones were: for the natural movement downward trend in the birth rate, which started in the 70’s in the city and later in rural areas, and for the mechanical movement, industrialisation was crucial, industrialisation...

Soil erosion is a natural process that is causing environmental concerns such as land degradation, soil loss, water pollution and ecosystem alteration. The Erosion Potential Method (EPM) is extensively used for identifying watersheds with such problems. One of 57 studied river basins of the Polimlje Region was Radulicka Rijeka Watershed where we st...

Soil erosion is driven by complex processes involving detachment of material caused by raindrops and flow trac-tions, which is further transported by the wind or by the water flow. The region of Shirindareh Watershed of Iran is particularly prone to erosion because it is subject to long dry periods followed by heavy erosive rainfalls, falling on st...

The objective of this research was to study soil erosion processes in one of Northern Montenegrin watersheds, the Krivacki Potok Watershed of the Polimlje River Basin, using modeling techniques: the River Basins computer-graphic model, based on the analytical Erosion Potential Method (EPM) of Gavrilovic for calculation of runoff and soil loss. Our...

The formation of a river channel stream profile in natural conditions is a long process that lasts for hundreds of years. Research at experimental sections of streams is necessary to discover the initial phases of river beds morphological development. In order to achieve this, this study focused on the period after regulatory earth works. From this...

Prema proračunima za slivove Beranske kotline vrijednosti Qmax su najveće kod sliva (5) Bistrica i iznose 460 m3s-1, za povratni period od 100 godina; potom kod sliva (9) Dapsićka rijeka, 243 m3s-1; dok vrijednost kod sliva (6) Kaludarska rijeka, iznosi 217m3s-1 (slika 4/1). Vrijednost količine srednjegodišnje zapremine erozionih nanosa (ukupni v...

Oticanje i intenzitet erozije zemljišta u direktnoj su zavisnosti od načina korišćenja zemljišta, koje, zavisno od načina gazdovanja u slivovima, povećava ili smanjuje oticanje i produkciju nanosa. Erozioni procesi uzrokuju velike štete u Beranskoj kotlini ispirajući zemljište na strmim i nezaštićenim površinama brdskih dijelova slivova. S druge st...

Eroded material in torrential watercourses moves in waves of maximum discharge. The paper deals with studies related to the impact of geological type of stream bed in a drainage basin on the rate of rock erodibility, fragmentation and hydraulic transport through the catchment hydrographic network. The study was performed in the area of the Teaching...

Soil erosion is a natural process that is causing environmental concerns such as land degradation, soil loss, water pollution and ecosystem alteration. The Erosion Potential Method (EPM) is extensively used for identifying watersheds with such problems. One of 57 studied river basins of the Polimlje region was Radulicka Rijeka Watershed where we st...

Use of models in the research of soil erosion processes is at the moment a standard practice and models are necessary tool for better understanding of sediment production and runoff, although their interpretation is limited by large uncertainties, including model parameter uncertainties. In this research we studied the main ecological factors and a...

Erosion caused by water is a natural process and in the studied river basin is generated primarily by rainfall and surface runoff. In defining potential measures to alleviate the environmental effects in certain areas it is important to understand this process and to detect the erosion prone areas. We used analytical model IntErO for the assessment...

Soil erosion is the most important factor of land degradation worldwide, causing significant environmental problems in the region of South East Europe also. We studied soil erosion processes in the Rastocki Potok Watershed of Montenegro using the Erosion Potential Method (EPM) of Gavrilovic, which is created in Yugoslavia and is the most suitable o...

Soil erosion is natural processes that take place when the power of wind and water on the soil surface go beyond the cohesive forces that bind the soil particles together. Vegetation cover protects the soil from the effects of these erosive forces. Land management activities such as ploughing, heavy grazing may disturb this protective layer, exposi...

ABSTRACT There have been two major milestones in cartography: first was the invention of printing machines which brought to an end the need for manual work on mapmaking, and second was the invention of modern computers that opened up developments yet undreamed of. With the computerisation of cartography, there was a steep increase in the developmen...

This paper presents the use of the computer-graphics model IntErO, based on the Erosion Potential Method of Gavrilovic, for calculation of runoff and sediment yield in the Pisevska Rijeka Watershed of Montenegro. Specific physical-geographical inputs needed for the calculation of soil erosion intensity we imported in the IntErO model, what allowed...

This paper presents the use of the computer-graphics model IntErO, based on the Erosion Potential Method of Gavrilovic, for calculation of runoff and sediment yield in the Pisevska Rijeka Watershed of Montenegro. Specific physical-geographical inputs needed for the calculation of soil erosion intensity we imported in the IntErO model, what allowed...

The River Basin of Kisjele Vode belongs to the Polimlje Region which is one of the important areas of sediment yield in the upper reaches of the Drina River, of the Black Sea watershed. Soil erosion processes were studied by using a process-oriented soil erosion model IntErO (Spalevic, 2011). Testing of the applied procedures was important for the...

The Berane Valley is located in the North of Montenegro and covers an area of around 400 km2 where the river Lim receives 10 tributaries. One of the watersheds is the Susica River Basin, a left-hand tributary of the river Lim where the authors of this paper studied physical-geographical characteristics, area’s climate, relief, geological substrate,...

The Berane Valley is located in the North of Montenegro and covers an area of around 400 km2 where the river Lim receives 10 tributaries. One of the watersheds is the Susica River Basin, a left-hand tributary of the river Lim where the authors of this paper studied physical-geographical characteristics, area’s climate, relief, geological substrate,...

Land use change in all the river basins lead to the changes of hydrologic response, soil erosion and sediment dynamics characteristics. Those changes are often viewed as main cause of accelerated erosion rates. We studied the impact of land use changes on soil erosion processes in one of the watersheds in Montenegro: the Miocki Potok, using this wa...

Soil erosion and related degradation of land resources are highly significant spatio-temporal phenomena in coun-tries of the Southern East Europe. These effects are often related to changes in land use involving sedimentation, ecological degradation, and nonpoint source pollution. Understanding the processes of soil erosion, can help in identifying...