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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Yi Zhu, Jianqi Zhuang and Yong Zhao
The problems of gully and soil erosion caused by large-scale urban construction and agricultural development in China have become more and more serious in recent years. In an effort to solve this problem, a series of gully stabilization and highland prot...
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Bofu Zheng, Dan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Yihui Jiang, Fangqing Hu, Liliang Xu, Jihong Zhang and Jinqi Zhu
Background: Vegetation roots are considered to play an effective role in controlling soil erosion by benefiting soil hydrology and mechanical properties. However, the correlation between soil hydrology and the mechanical features associated with the vari...
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Xinkai Zhao, Xiaoyu Song, Danyang Wang, Lanjun Li, Pengfei Meng, Chong Fu, Long Wang, Wanyin Wei, Nan Yang, Yu Liu and Huaiyou Li
Straw mulching is a key method for controlling soil and water losses. Mulching costs may be reduced by applying it in strips rather than over entire areas. However, the effect of different straw mulching methods on the effectiveness of reducing soil eros...
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Roberto Barbetti, Irene Criscuoli, Giuseppe Valboa, Nadia Vignozzi, Sergio Pellegrini, Maria Costanza Andrenelli, Giovanni L?Abate, Maria Fantappiè, Alessandro Orlandini, Andrea Lachi, Lorenzo Gardin and Lorenzo D?Avino
A WebGis tool called GoProsit has been developed to support winegrowers in planning a new sustainable vineyard and in the identification of high-quality terroir in Tuscany, Central Italy, by providing various information on soils, climate, hydrological r...
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Sayed Shah Jan Sadiqi, Won-Ho Nam, Kyoung-Jae Lim and Eunmi Hong
This study investigated the effects of nonpoint source (NPS) pollution reduction and pollutant dynamics in a highland agricultural watershed in Korea. We employed the SWAT model to simulate hydrological processes and pollution transport within the waters...
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Hope Mwanake, Bano Mehdi-Schulz, Karsten Schulz, Nzula Kitaka, Luke O. Olang, Jakob Lederer and Mathew Herrnegger
Poor agricultural practices among small-scale sub-Saharan African farmers can lead to soil erosion and reduce agricultural productivity. However, information on such practices is normally not well documented, making it challenging to design future mitiga...
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Zhen Cao, Guohui Chen, Song Zhang, Shangshu Huang, Yan Wu, Fangjin Dong, Yuming Guo, Jianhao Wang and Fahui Jiang
Soil erosion poses a global threat to arable land and its sustainability, particularly in China, where the most severe soil erosion exists worldwide. No-tillage (NT) and mulching (NTS) are considered the most effective soil management techniques for redu...
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Lin Shi, Chenyang Dai and Sreetheran Maruthaveeran
To address the issue of soil erosion and limited economically valuable vegetation resources, perennial sweet peas were introduced to Hebei Province, China, and showed favorable biological attributes. Nevertheless, its specific efficacy within soil and wa...
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