Automated quantification of contouring as support practice for improved soil erosion estimation considering ridges
December 2024
Using soil conservation practices such as contouring are able to reduce soil loss on arable land parcels. In the empirical model of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), these measures are taken...
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Utilizing geodetectors to identify conditioning factors for gully erosion risk in the black soil region of northeast China
December 2024
In the black soil region of Northeast China, the issue of gully erosion persists as a significant threat, resulting in extensive damage to farmland, severe degradation of the black soil, and decreased...
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Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin
December 2024
This study examined land use/land cover (LULC) changes in Chemoga watershed of the Upper Blue Nile Basin, comprising four distinct agroecological regions: Wet Wurch, Moist Dega, Moist Weyna Dega, and...
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New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates
December 2024
Knowing soil hydraulic properties is essential to support soil use and management practices; however, their measuring is commonly expensive and time-consuming. Thus, pedotransfer functions (PTFs) have...
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Three-dimensional spatiotemporal variation of soil organic carbon and its influencing factors at the basin scale
December 2024
The variability of soil organic carbon (SOC) extends across three dimensions. However, quantitative analyses of the factors influencing spatiotemporal variations of SOC in various soil depth is scarce....
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Geospatial evaluation of the agricultural suitability and land use compatibility in Europe's temperate continental climate region
December 2024
Land suitability assessment is used in conjunction with geographic information systems to spatially model diverse aspects of soil functions, having the potential to facilitate a sustainable increase...
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Can hydraulic-energy-indices be effectively used to describe the saturated hydraulic conductivity?
December 2024
The saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and water retention curve (SWRC) parameters are important properties for simulating soil hydrological processes and characterizing soil conservation around...
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Modeling gully initiation by two codeless nonlinear methods: A case study in a small watershed on the Tibetan Plateau
December 2024
Land and soil resources are scarce in the Tibetan Plateau, and the region is facing ecological pressure from climate warming and increasing human activities. As a major ecological problem, gully erosion...
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Generation of runoff in an alpine meadow hillslope underlain by permafrost
December 2024
Permafrost plays an important role in hydrological processes of alpine regions. The frost table in the active layer on the permafrost acts as an impermeable boundary and regulates water generation from...
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National variability in soil organic carbon stock predictions: Impact of bulk density pedotransfer functions
December 2024
Accurate soil organic carbon storage (SOCS) estimation is crucial for sustaining ecosystem health and mitigating climate change impacts. This study investigated the accuracy and variability of SOCS...
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Divergent behaviour of soil nutrients imprinted by different land management practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
December 2024
Soil nutrients are essentially regulated by land management practices via modulating biotic element input and metabolism. The Three Gorges Reservoir Area in China was dominated by a farming landscape,...
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VIS-NIR spectroscopy and environmental factors coupled with PLSR models to predict soil organic carbon and nitrogen
December 2024
Soil profile organic carbon (OC) and total nitrogen (TN) are influenced by topographic attributes, and land use. The visible and near-infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy method can be used for the prediction...
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Challenges and constraints of conservation agriculture adoption in smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa: A review
December 2024
Common farming practices in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) such as intensive and repeated tillage, complete crop residue removal, and biomass burning create risks of soil degradation. To reduce these risks,...
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Soil erosion elasticity initiative for prioritizing sub-watersheds
Available online 11 December 2024
Quantitative evaluation of soil erosion is necessary to analyze the destructive effects of soil erosion and to identify priority sub-watersheds in different climatic and environmental conditions. The...
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The effects of armed conflict on natural resources and conservation measures in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Available online 29 November 2024
A heavy armed conflict erupted in Tigray region of Ethiopia in 2020, and the crisis continued up to 2022. This study investigates the impacts of this crisis on the status of natural resources and soil...
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Impacts of topography on the morphological indices of ephemeral gullies in the Chinese mollisol region
Available online 22 November 2024
Ephemeral gully (EG) erosion is a main erosion type on sloping croplands in the Chinese Mollisol region, causing severe land degradation and crop yield reduction, but how topographic factors, such as...
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The potential of runoff retention structures as a strategy to control urban gullying in tropical cities
Available online 13 November 2024
Rapid and chaotic urbanization leads to the formation of urban gullies in many tropical cities of the Global South. To prevent and limit the destructive impacts of these gullies, runoff retention structures...
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT BASED ON SOIL LOSS, DEFORESTATION IN PERMANENT PRESERVATION AREAS, AND WATER QUALITY APPLIED IN THE ITACAIÚNAS WATERSHED, EASTERN AMAZON.
Available online 6 November 2024
To understand how various environmental pressures may threaten the Amazon territory, specifically its hydrographic basins, it is crucial to guide key management actions such as soil conservation, environmental...
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Exploring soil erosion and reservoir sedimentation through the RUSLE model and bathymetric survey
Available online 22 October 2024
The aim of the paper was to compare the soil erosion in a river catchment with the sediment volume accumulated at the river mouth. Firstly, the sediment yield was estimated in GIS based on the soil...
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Non-consistent changes and drivers of water-sediment fluxes in the yarlung tsangpo river basin of the Tibetan plateau
Available online 17 October 2024
Variations in water-sediment fluxes and their driving mechanisms are critical to riverine ecosystems and management. Yet, current estimates of the response of water and sediment flux remain insufficiently...
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Establishing and Verifying Soil Quality Index Model based on GIS and Remote Sensing for Cultivated Lands under Semi-Humid Terrestrial Ecosystem
Available online 17 October 2024
Sustainable and efficient use of agricultural land depends on the potential characteristics of the soil. This potential directly affects the phenological growth and development of the crop to be grown....
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Visible, near-infrared, and shortwave-infrared spectra as an input variable for digital mapping of soil organic carbon
Available online 9 October 2024
This study proposes a novel methodology to employ discrete point spectra as input variable for digital mapping of soil organic carbon (SOC). Accordingly, two SOC modeling approaches were used in three...
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Effects of initial soil moisture on rill erodibility and critical shear stress factors in the WEPP model across diverse soil types
Available online 6 October 2024
Rill erosion, a significant issue in agricultural regions, is intricately linked to initial soil moisture conditions, affecting the development of concentrated flow erosion processes. However, understanding...
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Maize crop residue cover mapping using Sentinel-2 MSI data and random forest algorithms
Available online 5 October 2024
The return of crop residues to cultivated fields has numerous agronomic and soil quality benefits and, therefore, the areal extent of crop residue cover (CRC) could provide a rapid measure of the sustainability...
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of an expressway sand protection system in a gobi region—case study of the Ceke–Ejina expressway, Ejina banner, China
Available online 4 October 2024
Sand protection systems are widely used to shelter roads from blowing sand. Therefore, it's very important to evaluate their effectiveness. To provide some insights, we used field investigations, measurements...
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