Losses of large volumes soil through gully formation lead to serious environmental, societal, and economic problems for human societies. This study establishes a framework based on an artificial intelligence approach investigate the impact geo-environmental topo-hydrological factors occurrences in Biram region, Iran. The maximum entropy, random forest, boosted regression trees machine-learning ...

Geo-hydrological phenomena, including gullies, contribute significantly to soil erosion and land degradation. To address this, proper management of basins hillslopes should consider the mechanism, timing, location gully development how gullies interact with other hillslope processes. Yet, conventional modelling techniques for such processes are rare, frequently being limited applications only s...

The APEX (Agricultural Policy-Environmental eXtender) model developed in the United States was calibrated for northwestern China's conditions. The model was then used to investigate soil erosion effects associated with alternative land uses at the ZFG (Zi-Fang-Gully) watershed in northwestern China. The results indicated that the APEX model could be calibrated reasonably well (+/-15% errors) to...

[1] The fate of soil organic carbon (SOC) transported and redistributed by erosion over steep agricultural landscapes is uncertain. The effect of topography, slope, and slope position on SOC redistribution must be considered. Our objectives were to (1) determine the spatial patterns of both tillage and water erosion-induced SOC redistribution, (2) evaluate the compensating effects of tillage-in...