Prior to European contact in 1778, Hawaiians developed intensive irrigated pondfield agricultural systems in windward Kohala, Hawai'i. We evaluated three potential sources of nutrients to windward systems that could have sustained intensive agriculture: (1) in situ weathering of primary and secondary minerals in upland soils; (2) rejuvenation of the supply of rock-derived nutrients on eroded sl...

The use of sediment settling velocity based on mineral grain size distribution in erosion models ignores the effects of aggregation on settling velocity. The alternative approach, wet-sieved aggregate size distribution, on the other hand, cannot represent all destructive processes that eroded soils may experience under impacting raindrops. Therefore, without considering raindrop impact, both me...

Patterns of soil organic carbon (SOC) vary widely across the landscape leading to large uncertainties in the SOC budget especially for agricultural landscapes where water, tillage and wind erosion redistributes soil and SOC across the landscape. It is often assumed that soil erosion results in a loss of SOC from the agricultural ecosystem but recent studies indicate that soil erosion and its su...

Soil erosion is a complex phenomenon which combines the deterioration of their surface layers and the movement of the eroded materials that make it up. It is a constant issue for foresters, in particular in the management of new or restored forests. In metropolitan France, we spontaneously think about the restoration of mountain terrains (RTM), implemented from 1860 to stabilise degraded mounta...

To meet the increasing demand for wood and wood products, the Southern Hardwoods Laboratory is investigating silvicultural techniques such as fertilization. Sweetgum, water oak, and willow oak have responded to N and NPK on clay soils of the Mississippi River floodplain. Yellow-poplar growth has been improved by NPK fertilizers on eroded sites in the Silty Uplands, and in the greenhouse sycamor...

There is an abundance of literature on many aspects of soil salinity and sodicity, and the impact of increased salt and sodium on properties, behaviour, management and productivity of soils. However the impact of sodicity on erosion and soil erodibility and sediment transport has received less attention. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of changing soil salinity and sodicity...

The Great Lakes Geographer, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2001 41 Prior to the 1990s, Union Township, located near the geographic center of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula (Figure 1), was experiencing predictable, if unspectacular growth. That began to change when several championship golf courses opened, along with the Soaring Eagle Casino. New service industries such as restaurants, hotels, and gas stations open...

Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident resulted in a 3000-km2 radioactive contamination plume. Here, we model the progressive dilution of the radiocesium contamination in 327 sediment samples from two neighboring catchments with different timing of soil decontamination. Overall, we demonstrate that there has been a ~90% decrease of the contribution of upstream contamin...