Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

SOM improves soil structure and reduces erosion, leading to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters, and ultimately to increased food security and decreased negative impacts to ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

Here are some examples of erosion features identifiable on a map. The shape of the coast is also a good indicator. In this extract the large headlands at Burgh Island, 646438 and Bolt Tail ...

Soil can lose certain physical, chemical or biological qualities that underpin the web of life within it. Soil erosion is a part of soil degradation. It's when the topsoil and nutrients are lost ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

China has gained valuable experience in combating soil erosion and improving ecological environments, with Jiangxi province serving as a noteworthy example that offers important insights for the ...

Topography – steeper slopes, especially – correlated strongest with cover crops’ ability to reduce soil carbon erosion. Applying that data to a machine-learning generated map of global farmland, Huang ...