Use of landslide-dammed lake deposits and pollen tracing techniques to investigate the erosional response of a small drainage basin in the Loess Plateau, China, to land use change during the late 16th century

Zhang, X.; Walling, Desmond E.; He, Xingyuan; Long, Yi

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2009.05.001

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“…Zhang et al . () investigated historical sediment yields in a small watershed of the Huangtuwa watershed in Zizhou County, Shaanxi Province, and found that the inter‐gully areas were intensively cultivated for producing grains to supply the army in the Ming Dynasty and the sediment yield rates at that time were close to the present.…”

Section: Soil Erosion and Conservationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Wars between minorities, alternation of dynasties and refugee mitigation may influence the eco-environment and aggregate soil erosion in an indirect way (Kiernan, 2013). Zhang et al (2009) investigated historical sediment yields in a small watershed of the Huangtuwa watershed in Zizhou County, Shaanxi Province, and found that the inter-gully areas were intensively cultivated for producing grains to supply the army in the Ming Dynasty and the sediment yield rates at that time were close to the present.…”

Section: Spatial Pattern Of Soil Erosionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Soil Erosion, Conservation, and Eco‐environment Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

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As one of the best‐known areas in the world, the Loess Plateau, has long been suffering from serious soil erosion. The present paper reviewed the historical variation of climate, vegetation cover, and environment changes in order to understand the causes of severe soil erosion. Documentary evidence indicated that climate changes and vegetation cover were the dominant natural factors influencing the soil erosion rates during the Holocene. Intensive human activities consisting of warfare, population growth, deforestation, and soil and water conservation measures were responsible for the changes of soil erosion during the anthropogenic period. Spatial and temporal changes of specific sediment yields presented significant decrease within the last several decades, which resulted from decreasing rainfall, large scale soil and water conservation measures, agricultural irrigation, and reservoir construction. Different phase of soil conservation measures demonstrated the development of policies and techniques on soil erosion control. Effective strategies of soil and water conservation, consisting of terracing, afforestation, natural rehabilitation, and check‐dams construction, were carried out on the Loess Plateau during the past six decades. The progress of soil conservation measures confirmed that the check‐dams systems might be suitable for Loess hilly Plateau, and natural vegetation rehabilitation is the best way for soil erosion control and should be implemented in other regions with emphasis of improving the quality of conservation measures based on natural rehabilitation. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Soil Erosion and Conservationmentioning

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Section: Spatial Pattern Of Soil Erosionmentioning

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Soil Erosion, Conservation, and Eco‐environment Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

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“…In addition, extrapolating these results to watershed scale is highly problematic. Thus, the majority of studies have used the sediment volume accumulated in lakes and reservoirs as an indirect approach to sediment yield estimation (Zhang et al, 2006(Zhang et al, , 2009Grauso et al, 2008;Bussi et al, 2013). For example, Zhang et al (2006) investigated the sediment profile in a small dam-controlled watershed of the Yanhe River on the Loess Plateau and estimated an average annual sediment yield of 12,700 t km −2 yr −1 .…”

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“…These studies suggest that sediment yield estimation based on dam's deposition is a very useful tool, although Bussi et al (2013) showed that this method has limitations in relation to the storage capacity estimates of reservoirs and the historical dynamics of sediment yield assessments. Thus, sediment coring and paleolimnological techniques are needed to provide accurate information to facilitate sediment rate estimation (Zhang et al, 2009;Alatorre et al, 2012).…”

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Sediment yield estimation in a small watershed on the northern Loess Plateau, China

Zhao

Klik

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“…Meanwhile, researches attempted to use the deposition record of check dam or reservoir and the monitoring data at the watershed outlet to validate sediment yield model, such as WATEM/SEDEM model (Alatorre et al, 2010) and Annualized Agricultural Nonpoint Source model (Zema et al, 2012;Zema et al, 2016). Thus, the sediment deposition records in check dams, reservoirs or lakes can provide accurate information to obtain soil erosion rate (Alatorre et al, 2010;Romero-Diaz et al, 2007;Zhang et al, 2009).…”

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Sediment Yield Deduction from Check–dams Deposition in the Weathered Sandstone Watershed on the North Loess Plateau, China

Wei

et al. 2016

Land Degrad Dev

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As the basic unit of erosion and sediment yield, it was critical to determine the amount of soil erosion and sediment yield in the small watersheds for sustaining a reasonable water resource and sediment regulation system. In this study, we determined the sediment yield from the dams‐controlled watershed on the North Loess Plateau. Three check dams in the watershed were investigated by drilling ten‐hole sedimentation cores. The corresponding flood couplets were dated according to thickness of deposition layers, distribution of sediment particle size and historical erosive rainfall events. On the basis of the check dams capacity curve, the soil bulk density and the thickness of couplets, the deposit mass of check dams, and then the sediment yield of watershed at different temporal and spatial scale were deducted. In total of the 33, 60 and 55 couplets were corresponded to individual flood events in the dam MH1# from 1976 to 1984, the dam MH2# from 1985 to 2007, and the dam MH4# from 1981 to 2009, respectively. The specific sediment yield for flood events was 1,188.5–11,527.9 Mg km−2, 1,278.6–17,136.7 Mg km−2, and 3,395.9–33,698.5 Mg km−2, and the annual average sediment yield was 10,728.6 Mg (km2 · a)−1, 12,662.9 Mg (km2 · a)−1, and 16,753.3 Mg (km2 · a)−1 in dam MH1#, MH2# and MH4# controlled watershed, respectively. The sediment yields were inversely proportional to the dams – controlled areas. For the whole watershed, the annual average sediment yield was 14,011.1 Mg (km2 · a)−1 from 1976 to 2009. There were large amounts of sediments (42.3–50.5%) were intercepted gradually along the way from small watersheds to the river channel. And the minimum rainfall for sediment deposited in the dams was greater than 20 mm in this watershed. The results of this study suggested that the sediments retained behind check dams were helpful to quantifying the amount of erosion sediment yield and understanding the soil erosion evolution in the small and ungauged watersheds. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Use of landslide-dammed lake deposits and pollen tracing techniques to investigate the erosional response of a small drainage basin in the Loess Plateau, China, to land use change during the late 16th century

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Soil Erosion, Conservation, and Eco‐environment Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

Soil Erosion, Conservation, and Eco‐environment Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

Sediment yield estimation in a small watershed on the northern Loess Plateau, China

Sediment Yield Deduction from Check–dams Deposition in the Weathered Sandstone Watershed on the North Loess Plateau, China

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