Many numerical landform evolution models assume that soil erosion by flowing water is either purely detachment‐ limited (i.e. erosion rate is related to the shear stress, power, or velocity of the flow) or purely transport‐limited (i.e. erosion/ deposition rate is related to the divergence of shear stress, power, or velocity). This paper reviews available data on the relative importance of deta...

Assessing environmental effects of shelter forests is primarily necessary for realizing their greatest protective benefits. The Three-North Shelter Forest Program (TNSFP), the largest ecological afforestation program in the world, has been operated for three decades in China but so far lacks comprehensive assessment of its environmental impacts. Horqin Sandy Land (HSL) in Northeast China is one...

[1] Numerical landscape evolution models driven by uniform vertical uplift often develop a static drainage network and a precise balance between uplift and erosion. Small-scale physical models of uplifting drainage basins, however, continually reorganize by ridge migration and do not reach an ideal steady state. Here I show that the presence or absence of persistent drainage migration in a bedr...

Hari Shanker Gupta Department of Geography University College, M.D. University Rohtak PIN-124001 (Haryana) INDIA PHONE : ++91-1262-59076 ® ++91-1262-74955 (O) FAX : ++91-1262 –74640 E-MAIL:[email protected] / ABSTRACT Geographic Information System (GIS) coupled with Remote Sensing has proved as a powerful tool in the field of land evaluation and managem...