Although the particular characteristics of SMOPs clearly are relevant for environmental considerations such as soil erosion, the presence of slope and/or mountains also has a direct and indirect infuence on economic viability. Thus, the SMOPs concept can be seen as a surrogate for defining a more disadvantaged or “marginal” type of olive grove, in contrast to groves on flat land that generally ...

anatomical changes of the exposed roots in cupressus sempervirens l. var horizontalis were used toestimate soil erosion in hassan abad valley, chaloos, iran. a total of 30 exposed roots, for five trees,were used to estimate erosion. cross-sections of 20 μm were papered and the first year of exposure byerosion was identified. we finally estimated the mean annual erosion. the statistical relation...

Dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) are associated with soil erosion, yet there is a shortage of research concerning the relationship between soil erosion, SOC, and especially microbial biomass carbon (MBC). In this paper, we selected two typical slope landscapes including gentle and steep slopes from the Sichuan Basin, China, and used the (137)Cs technique to determine the effects of water e...

Skidding operations can cause considerable and wide spread soil disturbance. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of ground skidding operations on soil compaction, moisture content, and total porosity at different levels of slope and traffic frequency. Four levels of traffic intensity (3, 8, 13, and >13 passes of a Crawler Tractor Onezhets ? 110) and three levels of slope ( ...

cients. Normalizing to a unit plot of length 22.13 m, both the USLE and RUSLE use the equation Empirical soil erosion models continue to play an important role in soil conservation planning and environmental evaluations around L 5 (l/22.13) [2] the world. The effect of hillslope length on soil loss, often termed the where L is soil loss normalized to the 22.13-m-long slope length factor, is one...

in order to quantify and simulate the response of lemon balm (melissa officinalis l.) plants to cadmium (cd) concentrations in the soil, a pot experiment was conducted using completely randomized design (crd) with three replicates during 2014. the treatment consisted of twelve cd concentrations from 0 to 300 mg kg-1 of cd in the soil which was mixed with the experimental soil before planting. l...