Since physical and chemical erosion yield comparable carbon fluxes, studying both together is essential to avoid biases in erosion-driven carbon flux estimates.

Water erosion is the most widespread form of soil ... land forming - the use of excavation equipment to truncate or add to soil profiles, changing soil depth and surface topography loess plateau ...

Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order ... or on the top part of the depositional landform position's soil profiles. The distance that eroded sediments travel is a function ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

Conservation districts often rent conservation-tillage equipment to farmers. But this may be a first: The Crawford County, Iowa, Soil and Water Conservation District is helping farmers purchase ...

Study: Redistributing soil can restore nutrients, improve water retention, and significantly boost crop yields on eroded ...

They conduct research on soil degradation or erosion, or on movement of substances such as nutrients and pesticides through the soil profile. Sometimes soil scientists identify problems such as ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...