Observations on Deforestation and Alpine Turf Destruction in the Central Wutai Mountains, Shanxi Province, China

Rost, Karl Tilman

doi:10.2307/3674111

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“…Medium‐sized (5–20 m wide) and shallow (< 1 m deep) soil slips with crescentic head‐walls are common features in these soils. These may start as marmot burrows or yak teracettes (Watanabe, 1994; Hall et al ., 1999), but frost action contributes to their development once the turf is broken (Rost, 1999). Profile 12 was described in the face of one of these slips.…”

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Regolith and soils in Bhutan, Eastern Himalayas

Baillie

Tshering

Dorji

et al. 2003

European J Soil Science

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Summary Bhutan lies at altitudes of 100–7500 m on the steep, long and complex southern slopes of the Eastern Himalayas. Soil surveys show that, despite steep gradients, there are many moderately or deeply weathered soils. Many slopes are mantled with polycyclic, layered drift materials, so soil horizons owe as much to regolith heterogeneity as to pedogenesis. In the limited arable areas soil profiles are further complicated by rice cultivation and the construction, maintenance and irrigation of flat terraces on steep slopes. Some natural pedogenic horizonation is apparent, and there is an altitudinal zonation of soil types. Although the climate is warm and seasonally wet, most soils on the subtropical southern foothills are not particularly weathered and leached. The foothills are seismically active, and many soils are formed in unstable landslide debris. Elsewhere the regoliths are more stable. The main soils up to about 3000 m in the inner valleys are moderately weathered and leached, and have bright subsoil colours and thin dark topsoils. Above these there is a zone of bright orange‐coloured non‐volcanic andosolic soils. Further upslope there are acid soils with thick surface litter, stagnogleyic topsoils, and drab brown subsoils with organic cutans. These grade to weak podzols, which extend from about 3500 m up to the treeline, around 4000 m. Above this, alpine turf soils, with deep, dark, and friable topsoils and yellowish friable subsoils, are intermixed with unweathered glacial deposits. The interactions between pedogenesis and the deposition of the varied and layered drift materials complicate mapping and classification of the soils.

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Regolith and soils in Bhutan, Eastern Himalayas

Baillie

Tshering

Dorji

et al. 2003

European J Soil Science

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“…These soil erosion scars were about 1-50 m wide, 1-50 m long, and less than 1 m deep. A horseshoe-shaped patch (Rost 1999) on a gentle slope (7.6°) at 1710 m asl was selected to examine a denudation process in the grassland ( Figure 1B). A near-vertical terrace riser surrounds the patch, 26 × 12 m in diameter, except for the southwestern part, which is covered with Sasa quelpaertensis.…”

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Thufurand Turf Exfoliation in a Subalpine Grassland on Mt Halla, Jeju Island, Korea

Kim¹

2008

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Taibai, but Larix dynamics are difficult to observe in pollen diagrams. Rost (1999) found that a significant lowering of the timberline, which might have been initiated by climate…”

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“…Wutai (Rost 1999). However, fire initiation and frequency also are controlled by climatic conditions.…”

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