Subsoil tillage and straw mulching are synergistic for long-term improvement of soil carbon and structural characteristics
Available online 25 July 2025
Subsoil tillage (S) improves the stability and quality of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil structure. Combining straw mulching with subsoil tillage (SS) may further improve soil physical and biogeochemical...
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Effect of government regulation on promotion of soil restoration practices among farmers in the Loess plateau: Unveiling the role of green ecological cognition
Available online 23 July 2025
Soil remediation practices by farmers are crucial for improving soil quality and ensuring stable agricultural production. To analyze the factors influencing these practices, we surveyed 403 farmers...
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Soil degradation: An integrated model of the causes and drivers
Available online 21 July 2025
Soil plays a critical role in seven existential challenges that threaten sustainable development of human society. However, despite this integrative role, humans generally focus on the use of soil to...
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Integrated organochemical – Microbial solutions remediate degraded saline-sodic soils
Available online 19 July 2025
Projections of global population growth underscore the urgent need to restore degraded saline-sodic soils to meet rising demands for food, feed, and fiber. This study evaluated the individual and combined...
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Response of soil erosion and non-point source pollution to different rainfall, vegetation and land preparation measures in Miyun reservoir area during 2010–2023
Available online 16 July 2025
Soil erosion and non-point source pollution are critical global environmental issues, with profound implications for ecosystems, agricultural productivity, and water quality. These problems are especially...
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Spatial variations in runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses induced by toposequence and biochar application in upland maize farming
Available online 14 July 2025
Soil erosion is a natural process that can be intensified by inappropriate land use and agricultural practices. Therefore, it is essential to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of agro-ecological...
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Fingerprinting using compound-specific δ13C of n-alkanes reveals the temporary role of paddy fields as a secondary source for watershed sediment loss
Available online 9 July 2025
Fingerprinting generates reliable sediment provenance information which supports devising policy or practical strategies for soil conservation and sediment management, but it remains challenging in...
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Incorporating rocky desertification characteristic into soil erosion modeling in karst regions aligns better with regional conditions
Available online 9 July 2025
The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is the most widely used soil erosion modeling method worldwide. The karst regions, influenced by geological conditions and human activities, feature...
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Assessing Plant Soil Water Availability in Drought Conditions: A Comparative Analysis of Conventional and Minimum Tillage, Example from Slovenia
Available online 5 July 2025
Tillage systems, such as conventional tillage (CT) and minimum tillage (MT), with reduced tillage and incorporation of surface crop residues, lead to changes in soil properties, including organic matter...
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Assessing soil erosion vulnerability using a novel capacity–condition framework (CCF): A case study from New South Wales, Australia
Available online 5 July 2025
Soil water erosion is a major threat to long-term soil sustainability. However, challenges remain in capturing how both natural and human-induced erosion processes interact over space and time to influence...
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Modeling runoff and sediment yield at the event scale in semiarid watersheds
Available online 4 July 2025
K2-RHEM, a recently integrated event-based rangeland watershed model, represents one of the few process-based models available for rangeland applications. However, to gain wider acceptance and demonstrate...
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The passive microwave remote sensing in soil moisture retrieval: Products, models, applications and challenges
Available online 3 July 2025
Soil moisture (SM) is a pivotal component of the global water cycle and a critical environmental parameter in terrestrial carbon cycling, significantly influencing energy exchange, vegetation dynamics,...
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Straw incorporation regulates rill erosion processes: Revealing multi-timescale hysteresis between runoff and sediment concentration in brown soil
Available online 1 July 2025
The rill erosion process in sloping farmland after straw incorporation is different from that under traditional tillage, including complex variations and hysteresis in runoff and sediment concentration....
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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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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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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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