Simulated erosion using soils from vegetated slopes in the Jiufeng Mountains, China

Assessment of soil particle erodibility and sediment trapping using check dams in small semi-arid catchments

“…Vaezi et al Catena 157 (2017) 227-240 Sun et al, 2016). Beside these, vegetation cover plays an important role in restoring sediment transport pathways (gullies) in catchments (Molina et al, 2009).…”

Effect of Slope Gradient on Phosphorus Loss from a Sloping Land of Purple Soil under Simulated Rainfall

“…Many studies have noted the importance of slope condition in soil erosion and P loss [5,[10][11]. Several studies have reported that the runoff coefficient was a function of slope gradient and rainfall intensity in different slope gradient cases [4,10,12]. The amount of total erosion tends to stabilize with an increase in slope gradients, which implies there is probably a threshold slope gradient at which soil erosion begins to shift from strong to weak [13].…”

“…Many studies were based on a discussion of critical slope or characteristics of P loss at the surface, but there is still insufficient data for P loss in subsurface runoff. The lack of experimental studies is due to the difficulty of monitoring variation in subsurface runoff [1,[10][11][12][13][14].…”

“…Maize is one of the major cultivars of the purple soil region in Sichuan, China. Purple soils are thin Entisols with high erosivity, and strong dispersibility and is the potential contribution source of colloidal particles [12]. In addition, the coverage is low during the maize seedling stage.…”

Groundcover influence on physical and chemical soil properties, runoff and nutrient loss and grape yield and quality in semiarid Mediterranean vineyards

“…The low runoff rates in the covered plots in comparison to T demonstrate that the plants reduce the velocity and erosivity of overland flow. The litter layer mainly causes a delay and ponding of the runoff, which increased the infiltration rates, as has been described under rainfall simulation experiments (Cerda, 1998;Wang et al, 2016), and the vegetation stems reduce the sheet flow velocity and prevents the development of rills (Ghahramani and Ishikawa, 2013;Sun et al, 2016;Zhao et al, 2016). On the other hand, the plants of the GC contribute root macropores, which improve water infiltration and produce more vertical connections than in the soils under tillage.…”