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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Variability of soil organic carbon with elevation gradient in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Available online 25 June 2025
Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays a critical role in the carbon cycle of alpine ecosystems; however, little is known about the dynamics of SOC governed by soil types and elevation gradients in these systems....
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Improving the Landsat-8 determinations of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen stocks through reducing the effects of buildings, water, and vegetation
Available online 13 June 2025
Soil mapping using Landsat-8 provides potential for a real-time synoptic estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil total nitrogen (STN) stocks. However, the few relevant studies at global and...
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Intra-annual characterization of soil mean temperature at 5 and 10 cm depths based on remote sensing data, at country scale
Available online 11 June 2025
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Spatiotemporal detailed crop cover and management factor maps as agri-environmental indicators for soil erosion in Germany
Available online 7 June 2025
The crop cover and management factor (C factor) is crucial to assess the impact of management on soil erosion by water within the (R)USLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) modelling framework....
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A modified CSLE for soil loss prediction under different vegetation patterns at slope scale in China
Available online 4 June 2025
Vegetation plays a fundamental role in reducing soil erosion by shielding the soil surface from raindrop impact and runoff erosion, promoting water infiltration to decrease runoff, and enhancing soil...
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Disparity in soil erosion processes between freeze-thaw and unfrozen slopes under artificial rainfall conditions in high-altitude and dry valleys of the Southeast Tibet region
Available online 23 May 2025
The arid valley region in southeastern Tibet exemplifies an ecologically vulnerable area in southwestern China, where soil erosion has intensified in recent years as a consequence of socio-economic...
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Response of soil detachment capacity to freeze‒thaw process for five loess soils from the Loess Plateau of China
Available online 22 May 2025
The combined effects of freeze-thaw and water erosion significantly increase the risk of soil erosion in seasonally freeze-thaw regions. Although soil detachment capacity (SDC) is a critical parameter...
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Impact of soil compaction on the rill erosion of Mollisol by waterflow: A comparative analysis before and after the seasonal freezing and thawing
Available online 21 May 2025
Soil erosion resulting from soil compaction and freeze-thaw action is a major global environmental issue in intensively mechanized agricultural and cold regions. Existing studies predominantly focus...
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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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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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