Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review

MF Dignac, D Derrien, P Barré, S Barot… - Agronomy for …, 2017 - Springer
The international 4 per 1000 initiative aims at supporting states and non-governmental
stakeholders in their efforts towards a better management of soil carbon (C) stocks. These …

Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

T Heckmann, M Cavalli, O Cerdan, S Foerster… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Indices of connectivity are critical means for moving from qualitative to (semi-) quantitative
evaluations of material (eg, water, sediment and nutrients) transfer across the building …

Machine learning to estimate surface soil moisture from remote sensing data

H Adab, R Morbidelli, C Saltalippi, M Moradian… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture is an integral quantity parameter in hydrology and agriculture practices.
Satellite remote sensing has been widely applied to estimate surface soil moisture …

Soil physicochemical properties and crusts regulate the soil infiltration capacity after land-use conversions from farmlands in semiarid areas

Y Liao, L Dong, A Li, W Lv, J Wu, H Zhang, R Bai… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Large scale land-use conversions played important role in regulating the process of soil
infiltration, and thus changing soil moisture recharge. However, how the soil properties …

By increasing infiltration and reducing evaporation, mulching can improve the soil water environment and apple yield of orchards in semiarid areas

Y Liao, HX Cao, X Liu, HT Li, QY Hu, WK Xue - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Infiltration and evaporation are two important components of soil water balance in semiarid
areas. For local orchards using drip irrigation, rainfall and irrigation events have a profound …

The evaluation of unmanned aerial system-based photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning to generate DEMs of agricultural watersheds

MM Ouédraogo, A Degré, C Debouche, J Lisein - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Agricultural watersheds tend to be places of intensive farming activities that permanently
modify their microtopography. The surface characteristics of the soil vary depending on the …

The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water

S Keesstra, S Sannigrahi… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims for clean water and sanitation for
all by 2030, through eight subgoals dealing with four themes:(i) water quantity and …

Linking environmental régimes, space and time: Interpretations of structural and functional connectivity

J Wainwright, L Turnbull, TG Ibrahim, I Lexartza-Artza… - Geomorphology, 2011 - Elsevier
Connectivity as a concept has been increasingly part of discussions or explanations in
hydrology, geomorphology and ecology. We address recent critiques of this approach by …

Multi‐temporal UAV data for automatic measurement of rill and interrill erosion on loess soil

A Eltner, P Baumgart, HG Maas… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The fragile landscape of the north European loess belt is prone to soil erosion due to soil
properties and intense land use of the fertile region. Exact measurement of surface changes …

Effect of soil surface roughness on infiltration water, ponding and runoff on tilled soils under rainfall simulation experiments

L Zhao, R Hou, F Wu, S Keesstra - Soil and Tillage Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Agriculture has a large effect on the properties of the soil and with that on soil hydrology. The
partitioning of rainfall into infiltration and runoff is relevant to understand runoff generation …