After wildfires, land managers must assess the potential for increased flooding, erosion, and sedimentation, and the increased threat these effects may pose to people, structures, and valued resources. A Web-based Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT) has been developed to predict surface erosion from postfire hillslopes, and to evaluate the potential effectiveness of various erosion mitigation ...

Soil erosion implications on future food security are gaining global attention because in many areas worldwide there is an imbalance between soil loss and its subsequent deposition. Soil erosion is a complex phenomenon affected by many factors such as climate, topography and land cover (in particular forest resources, natural vegetation and agriculture) while directly influencing water sediment...

The role of water erosion on seed loss and on plant establishment and distribution is unknown on the Chinese Loess Plateau, which suffers serious soil erosion. The seed susceptibility of 16 local species to removal by water erosion from loess slopes was determined by rainfall simulation experiments. The experiments were performed on slopes with gradients of 10°, 15°, 20° and 25° for a 60-min du...

The risk of potential water erosion is computed on a raster cell basis using elevation and soil data which are expressed by two factors soil erodibility and slope steepness. The SIte COmparative Method (SICOM) is used to evaluate the heterogeneity of these factors inside the borders of field blocks. With the help of this approved method a set of indicators are provided to support the evaluation...

In the United States, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the primary agency charged with the task of reducing wind erosion associated with production agriculture. The NRCS has used the Wind Erosion Equation (WEQ) (Woodruff and Siddoway, 1965) to assess the effects of field management on the potential for wind erosion for the last two and a half decades. The WEQ uses input...

Water is the most production limiting factor for dryland cropping systems in semiarid Great Plains environments. Evaporation is responsible for the greatest amount of water loss and management practices such as notill have been adopted to reduce evaporative losses. Less is known about the magnitude of water loss due to runoff. An objective of this study is to estimate an expected range in rainf...

Basically, water erosion is one of the most significant environmental problems in the world. The major variables affecting soil erosion are climate, soil, vegetation, and topography. Of these, vegetation and, to some extent, soil and topography may be controlled. However, for adequate intervention, reliable and representative model parameters and running conditions are necessary, which requires...

Trail-based recreation has increased over recent decades, raising the environmental management issue of soil erosion that originates from unsurfaced, recreational trail systems. Trail-based soil erosion that occurs near stream crossings represents a non-point source of pollution to streams. We modeled soil erosion rates along multiple-use (hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding) recreati...

The Donghe basin is one of the typical regions with serious water and soil erosion in Kaixian county of China. In this study the spatial distribution variation of soil erosion in Donghe basin is analyzed based on a comprehensive method that integrates SWAT model with a Geographic Information System and remote sensing technologies and the effects of land use changes on soil erosion is also analy...