Soil Erosion and Land Degradation
A special issue of Soil Systems (ISSN 2571-8789).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 73863
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil science; environment; geomorphology; geoecology; soil erosion; machine learning in soil science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue addresses one of the most severe environmental issues of our time: Land degradation by soil erosion. Although it has been known about for decades, humankind still faces numerous unresolved problems due to erosion worldwide, and many studies have found that the risk of soil loss still increases significantly with ongoing climate change. At the same time, topography and vegetation patterns such as root systems or biological soil crust communities, as well as land cover change, land use management, and engineering, play a decisive role in soil protection against erosion. Furthermore, the development and stabilization of new soil environments and the release, transportation, and storage of important environmental elements such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, or heavy metals are largely controlled by erosion. Thus, soil erosion processes are shaping the Earth´s surface significantly. This Special Issue on soil erosion and land degradation addresses new findings on the above-mentioned topics as well as on methodological and technological advances and progress in modeling using world-wide increased data availability.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten
Dr. Steffen Seitz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil erosion
- erosion measurement
- matter transport
- soil conservation
- climate change
- erosion and sediment control
- erosion prediction
- erosion modeling
- land conservation
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