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DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.237 |
Relative contributions of wind and water erosion to total soil loss and its effect on soil properties in sloping croplands of the Chinese Loess Plateau | |
Tuo, Dengfeng1,2; Xu, Mingxiang1; Gao, Guangyao2 | |
通讯作者 | Xu, Mingxiang |
来源期刊 | SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT |
ISSN | 0048-9697 |
EISSN | 1879-1026 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 633页码:1032-1040 |
英文摘要 | Wind and water erosion are two dominant types of erosion that lead to soil and nutrient losses. Wind and water erosion may occur simultaneously to varying extents in semi-arid regions. The contributions of wind and water erosion to total erosion and their effects on soil quality, however, remains elusive. We used cesium-137 (Cs-137) inventories to estimate the total soil erosion and used the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to quantify water erosion in sloping croplands. Wind erosion was estimated from the subtraction of the two. We also used Cs-137 inventories to calculate total soil erosion and validate the relationships of the soil quality and erosion at different slope aspects and positions. The results showed that wind erosion (1460 t km(-2) a(-1)) on northwest-facing slope was responsible for approximately 39.7% of the total soil loss, and water erosion (2216 t km(-2) a(-1)) accounted for approximately 60.3%. The erosion rates were 58.8% higher on northwest-than on southeast-facing slopes. Northwest-facing slopes had lower soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, clay, and silt contents than southeast-facing slopes, and thus, the Cs-137 inventories were lower, and the total soil erosions were higher on the northwest-facing slopes. The variations in soil physicochemical properties were related to total soil erosion. The lowest Cs-137 inventories and nutrient contents were recorded at the upper positions on the northwest-facing slopes due to the successive occurrence of more severe wind and water erosion at the same site. The results indicated that wind and water could accelerate the spatial variability of erosion rate and soil properties and cause serious decreases in the nutrient contents in sloping fields. Our research could help researchers develop soil strategies to reduce soil erosion according to the dominant erosion type when it occurs in a hilly agricultural area. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Cs-137 RUSLE model Erosion rate Soil organic carbon Slope aspect |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000432475300100 |
WOS关键词 | PARKS CENTRAL SYSTEM ; ERODED SEDIMENT ; ORGANIC-CARBON ; SIZE-SELECTIVITY ; STEEP SLOPES ; SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION ; CRISSCROSS REGION ; NORTHEAST CHINA ; LAND-USE ; MODELS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源机构 | 西北农林科技大学 |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/212961 |
作者单位 | 1.Northwest A&F Univ, Inst Soil & Water Conservat, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tuo, Dengfeng,Xu, Mingxiang,Gao, Guangyao. Relative contributions of wind and water erosion to total soil loss and its effect on soil properties in sloping croplands of the Chinese Loess Plateau[J]. 西北农林科技大学,2018,633:1032-1040. |
APA | Tuo, Dengfeng,Xu, Mingxiang,&Gao, Guangyao.(2018).Relative contributions of wind and water erosion to total soil loss and its effect on soil properties in sloping croplands of the Chinese Loess Plateau.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,633,1032-1040. |
MLA | Tuo, Dengfeng,et al."Relative contributions of wind and water erosion to total soil loss and its effect on soil properties in sloping croplands of the Chinese Loess Plateau".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 633(2018):1032-1040. |
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