Water input / output and soil erosion on a cultivated watershed

Hungary

“…Soil erosion assessments were mainly restricted to small areas, hillslopes or small catchments (Erődi et al, 1965;Csepinszky and Jakab, 1999;Dezsény, 1982Dezsény, , 1984Kertész, 1987Kertész, , 1993Kertész and Góczán, 1988;Kertész andRichter, 1990, 1997;Kertész et al, 1993Kertész et al, , 1995Kertész et al, , 2000Kertész et al, , 2002Kerényi, 1984Kerényi, , 1985Kerényi, , 1986Kerényi, , 1991Kerényi, , 1994Krisztián, 1992Krisztián, , 1998Lóki, and Szabó 1997;Marosi and Juhász, 1992;Mattyasovszky, 1953Mattyasovszky, , 1956Máté, 1974Máté, , 1995. A short review of research activities will be provided below according to the various institutes (see also Table 1.12.4).…”

“…The area selected for closer study, the Ö rvényes Séd stream, is a northern sub-catchment of Lake Balaton. Soil erosion studies were performed here for four years in cooperation with the German Research Foundation (Kertész, 1993;Kertész et al, 1993Kertész et al, , 1995Kertész and Richter, 1997). The main objective was the estimation of soil loss at the watershed scale using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE).…”