Exploring best soil conservation practices using the tolerable soil loss limit in central highland of Ethiopia: A case study of Andit Tid watershed
June 2025
Soil erosion is a major issue in Ethiopia, prompting ongoing watershed development campaigns. This study contributes to exploring Best Soil Conservation practices (BSCPs) to reduce erosion rates to/or...
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How does shrub stem coverage affect the hydraulic properties of concentrated flow and sediment yield during gully bed erosion?
June 2025
Vegetation plays a critical role in influencing runoff processes and soil loss during gully bed erosion. However, it is still unclear how the stem coverage affects gully bed erosion processes by altering...
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Morphology evolution of vegetation-covered loess gully heads induced by hydraulic and gravitational erosion
June 2025
Gully heads suffer hydraulic and gravitational erosion triggered by rainstorms. However, how hydraulic and gravitational erosion affect the morphology evolution of the vegetation-covered loess gully...
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Improving SOC estimation in low-relief farmlands using time-series crop spectral variables and harmonic component variables based on minimum sample size
June 2025
Efficiently monitoring Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) in farmlands is crucial for environmental and agricultural sustainability. Currently, crop spectral variables are primarily employed to estimate SOC...
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Predictive performance and uncertainty analysis of ensemble models in gully erosion susceptibility assessment
June 2025
Gully erosion, as a significant natural process in geomorphological evolution, poses serious threats to natural environments and socio-economic stability. In response, Gully Erosion Susceptibility Maps...
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Modelling land use changes impacts on the silting of small agricultural water harvesting reservoirs
June 2025
Water harvesting with Small Agricultural Reservoirs (SmAR) represents a solution for sustainable water management in different contexts. However, many technical challenges are still open despite its...
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Heavy metal(loid)s migration mechanisms during soil erosion: A systematic quantitative review
June 2025
Heavy metal(loid)s migration occurs in both particulate and dissolved forms during soil erosion, but it is unclear which form is dominant and which factors affect it. Thus, a quantitative synthesis...
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The evolution of large gullies in association with long-term rainfall in the Tsitsa River Catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa
June 2025
Large gullies exist as permanent features in the landscape that impact the surrounding environment and communities. The effect of rainfall on long-term gully evolution is still understudied, especially...
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Effect of rainfall intensity and gravel content on hydraulic characteristics and hydraulic parameters on soil erosion of spoil heaps: Laboratory experiments with simulated rainfall
June 2025
Spoil heaps represent one of the most severe forms of soil degradation and serve as significant triggers for geological disasters. To investigate the hydraulic characteristics of runoff and dynamical...
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Study on the shelter and sand control effect of new porous sand barriers from recycled wind turbine blades
June 2025
Aeolian disasters pose considerable threats to socioeconomic systems, ecological environments, and infrastructures such as railways and highways, in arid and semiarid regions. To reduce these problems,...
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Long-term effects of tillage practices and future climate scenarios on topsoil organic carbon stocks in Lower Austria – A modelling and long-term experiment study
June 2025
Conservation agriculture, with its reduced soil disturbance and enhanced cover, has the potential to increase carbon storage in the topsoil. However, it remains unclear how various tillage practices...
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The effects of armed conflict on natural resources and conservation measures in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
June 2025
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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Establishing and verifying soil quality index model based on GIS and remote sensing for cultivated lands under semi-humid terrestrial ecosystem
June 2025
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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Impacts of topography on the morphological indices of ephemeral gullies in the Chinese mollisol region
June 2025
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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Non-consistent changes and drivers of water-sediment fluxes in the yarlung tsangpo river basin of the Tibetan plateau
June 2025
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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Exploring soil erosion and reservoir sedimentation through the RUSLE model and bathymetric survey
June 2025
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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The potential of runoff retention structures as a strategy to control urban gullying in tropical cities
June 2025
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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Soil erosion elasticity initiative for prioritizing sub-watersheds
June 2025
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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Prediction and mapping of soil organic carbon in the Bosten Lake oasis based on Sentinel-2 data and environmental variables
June 2025
Soil is the largest carbon pool on the Earth's surface. With the application of remote sensing technology, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) estimation has become a hot topic in digital soil mapping. However,...
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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
June 2025
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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Sediment source determination comparing rare earth element tracing and composite fingerprinting approaches on hillslopes
Available online 20 May 2025
Both the rare earth element (REE) tracing and the composite fingerprinting approaches are valuable for sediment source identification. However, few studies have compared the accuracy of sediment source...
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Monitoring of wind erosion in the southern Aral Sea using SBAS-InSAR technology
Available online 16 May 2025
The Aralkum Desert, arising from the significant reduction of the Aral Sea since the 1960s, is recognized as a prominent contributor to salt-dust storms in Central Asia. This study used SBAS-InSAR technology...
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Soil erosion accelerates carbon cycling as a response to carbon limitation in erosion-prone sloping cropland
Available online 14 May 2025
Soil erosion accelerates the loss of soil carbon (C) pools and then exacerbates the microbial C limitation. However, the extent to which soil microbial C limitation influences soil C cycling processes...
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The rising threat of subsoil salinization in drylands
Available online 10 May 2025
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Forest restoration in tropical forests recovers topsoil water retention but does not improve deep soil layers
Available online 9 May 2025
Tropical primary forests have been rapidly reduced in recent decade owing to slash-and-burn, leading to the formation of tropical secondary forests in different recovery stages. However, it is still...
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