Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management (SLM)

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: 16S rRNA; Acacia decurrens; ANFIS; ANN; arid regions; backfilled loess; bacteria; climate change; constructability; degraded land; disdrometer; drought; drought prone; dryland; endemic plant species; environmental impact; erosion crises; Erosion rate; Ethiopian highlands; Eucalyptus; fungi; Gully Land Consolidation; gypsum; Herfindahl–Simpson diversity index; highland; human activities; ITS; land degradation; land use; lime; livelihood diversification; livelihood vulnerability; lowland; marginal soil; micro-dam; microbial community; microstructural characteristic; midland; multivariate probit; ordered probit; physical-mechanical property; polyacrylamide; pore size distribution; rainfall kinetic energy; rainfall simulator; reclaimed farmland; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; restoration; runoff; RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation model); SEDD; sediment; sediment delivery distributed model; sediment delivery ratio; sediment transport; sediment yield; sedimentation; Shannon-entropy index; Shihmen Reservoir watershed; soil detachment; soil erosion; soil loss; soil microbes; soil organic carbon; soil type; splash cup; splash erosion; structure stability; sustainable land management; SVM; β coefficient

This Special Issue titled “Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management” presents 13 chapters organized into four main parts. The first part deals with assessment of soil erosion that covers historical sediment dating to understand past environmental impacts due to tillage; laboratory simulation to...