Land-use change from arable lands to orchards reduced soil erosion and increased nutrient loss in a small catchment

Z Chen, L Wang, A Wei, J Gao, Y Lu, J Zhou - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
China has been undergoing dramatic land-use change since the1980s. More arable lands
have been converted to orchards to produce high-value fruits. There is an urgent need to …

Modeling linkages between erosion and connectivity in an urbanizing landscape

A Michalek, A Zarnaghsh, A Husic - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Erosion and connectivity are spatially varied processes key to determining sediment
transport and delivery to downstream waterbodies. However, we find few studies that …

Quantitative analysis of factors influencing spatial distribution of soil erosion based on geo-detector model under diverse geomorphological types

Y Zhao, L Liu, S Kang, Y Ao, L Han, C Ma - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Loess Plateau of China suffers from severe erosion, which results in a great variety of
economic and ecological problems. For scientific control of soil erosion, the key questions …

Place-making in the Corn Belt: The productivist landscapes of the “good farmer”

B Leitschuh, WP Stewart, CJ van Riper - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the end of the second World War, the landscapes of the US Corn Belt have
increasingly been dominated by large-scale, industrialized agricultural production. Although …

Global analysis of the cover-management factor for soil erosion modeling

M ** is economically competitive with row crops in the Midwest USA
KJ Wolz, EH DeLucia - Ecological Applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The maize–soybean rotation (MSR) dominates the Midwest United States and degrades
many ecological functions. Black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) plantation forestry (PF) and alley …

A spatial landscape scale approach for estimating erosion, water quantity, and quality in response to South Dakota grassland conversion

HM Menendez III, MR Wuellner… - Natural Resource …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conversion of grassland to cropland has been linked to many complex environmental
challenges in natural resource systems. South Dakota is a mosaic of grasslands, wetlands …

Experimental study of subsurface erosion in granitic under the conditions of different soil column angles and flow discharges

W Liu, S Wan, F Huang, X Luo, M Fu - Bulletin of Engineering Geology …, 2019 - Springer
Soil erosion leads to soil loss and affects the hydraulic and mechanical properties of soils,
and as a result, the soil fertility, eco-environmental quality, and reliability of engineering …