Temporal variability of global potential water erosion based on an improved USLE model
March 2024
Assessing spatiotemporal variation in global soil erosion is essential for identifying areas that require greater attention and management under the effects of anthropogenic activities and climate change....
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Assessing gully erosion and rehabilitation using multi temporal LiDAR DEMs: Case study from the Great Barrier Reef catchments, Australia
March 2024
Millions of dollars are being spent on gully rehabilitation to help reduce excess fine sediment delivery to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). There is an urgent need for (i) prioritisation of active gullies...
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Runoff and Infiltration responses of revegetated slopes to clipping management on the northern Loess Plateau
March 2024
Large-scale vegetation restoration can reduce local watershed water yield, limit vegetation establishment and subsequent growth, and influence regional ecosystem functions. Clipping management by reducing...
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Trade-off analyses between food provision and soil conservation service of Grain for Green Program in Mountainous Area
March 2024
The Grain for Green Program and soil and water conservation engineering initiatives are crucial for controlling erosion in steep-slope agriculture. However, it is still unclear how these two management...
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Semi-automated detection of rangeland runoff and erosion control berms using high-resolution topography data
March 2024
An inventory of topographic modifications is essential to addressing their impacts on hydrological and morphological processes in human-altered watersheds. However, such inventories are generally lacking....
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Towards accurate mapping of loess waterworn gully by integrating google earth imagery and DEM using deep learning
March 2024
Accurate mapping of loess waterworn gully (LWG) is essential to further study gully erosion and geomorphological evolution for the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Due to the vertical joint and collapsibility...
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Simulated rainfall in Brazil: An alternative for assesment of soil surface processes and an opportunity for technological development
March 2024
Rainfall simulators (RS) have been used, above all, to evaluate hydrological processes related to soil water infiltration, surface runoff and soil erosion. They allow repeatability of rain application...
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Spatial distributions of soil nutrients affected by land use, topography and their interactions, in the Loess Plateau of China
March 2024
Soil nutrient availability and their spatial distributions are strongly related to land use and landscape morphology. This study aims to address the knowledge gap regarding the interaction between these...
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An examination of thematic research, development, and trends in remote sensing applied to conservation agriculture
March 2024
Conservation agriculture seeks to reduce environmental degradation through sustainable management of agricultural land. Since the 1990s, agricultural research has been conducted using remote sensing...
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Field experimental study on the effect of thawed depth of frozen alpine meadow soil on rill erosion by snowmelt waterflow
March 2024
Soil erosion by snow or ice melt waterflow is an important type of soil erosion in many high-altitude and high-latitude regions and is further aggravated by climate warming. The snowmelt waterflow erosion...
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Limited impacts of occasional tillage on dry aggregate size distribution and soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in semi-arid drylands
March 2024
Tillage management that minimizes the frequency and intensity of soil disturbance can increase soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) sequestration and improve the resilience of dryland cropping systems,...
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Effects of physical crust on soil detachment by overland flow in the Loess Plateau region of China
March 2024
Physical soil crust (PSC), a key component of surface soil structure, exists extensively in loess areas. PSC is considered to have a significant effect on soil detachment processes. However, the long-term...
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Best management practices to reduce soil erosion and change water balance components in watersheds under grain and dairy production
March 2024
Soil erosion and sedimentation are among the most serious global environmental problems. Soil and water conservation measures have been proven effective ways to reduce soil loss. The objective of this...
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Drainage of paddy terraces impacts structures and soil properties in the globally important agricultural heritage of Hani Paddy Terraces, China
March 2024
Marginalization and abandonment of paddy terraces are widespread, but their effects on the sustainability of subsequent agricultural production are still unknown. Hani Paddy Terraces, included in Globally...
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Modeling gully initiation by two codeless nonlinear methods: A case study in a small watershed on the Tibetan Plateau
Available online 29 March 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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Challenges and constraints of conservation agriculture adoption in smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa: A review
Available online 20 March 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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Agroecology-based land use/land cover change detection, prediction and its implications for land degradation: A case study in the Upper Blue Nile Basin
Available online 17 February 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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VIS-NIR spectroscopy and environmental factors coupled with PLSR models to predict soil organic carbon and nitrogen
Available online 14 February 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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An integrative analysis of hydroclimatic elements in the three-river source region for historical and future periods: Shift toward an intensified hydrological cycle
Available online 26 January 2024
The Three-River Source Region (TRSR), China's water tower and an important ecological barrier in China, provides a considerable amount of water to the downstream regions, home to more than 500 million...
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Generation of runoff in an alpine meadow hillslope underlain by permafrost
Available online 23 January 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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Response to comment by Daley et al., on “Assessing gully erosion and rehabilitation using multi temporal LiDAR DEMs: Case study from the Great Barrier Reef catchments, Australia”
Available online 20 January 2024
Daley et al. (2023a) argue that at least 10–15 years apart Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived DEMs of Difference (DoD) surveys are needed to detect reliable geomorphic change within the gullied landscapes...
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Geospatial evaluation of the agricultural suitability and land use compatibility in Europe's temperate continental climate region
Available online 13 January 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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New empirical-point pedotransfer functions for water retention data for a wide range of soil texture and climates
Available online 6 January 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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