Soil Erosion and Its Response to Agroforestry Restoration

Dear Colleagues,

Understanding the nature and development of soil degradation, preventing and controlling soil degradation at different scales and levels, ensuring food security, and maintaining ecological and environmental health have become important issues of public concern. Soil erosion is an important land degradation problem in the world. Agroforestry is a type of management pattern combining agriculture and forestry, aiming to realize its synergistic development, improve the efficient utilization of land resources, and protect the ecological environment. Agroforestry can not only meet people’s demand for commodities such as food and forestry but also promote the restoration and sustainable development of ecosystems. Agroforestry does not only produces food that is at scale and more profitable but also uses agriculture or forestry to repair the environment and prevent soil erosion. However, in the process of implementing agricultural and forestry restoration measures, human high-intensity utilization, unreasonable planting, farming, fertilization, and other activities tend to lead to the imbalance of the soil ecological balance, the deterioration of environmental quality, the decline of regeneration capacity, and the decline of productivity, while still aggravating the risk of soil erosion.

Soil erosion is a complex problem that requires joint measures from governments, institutions, communities, and individuals to prevent and control soil erosion in a sustainable way. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that give insight into the processes and mechanisms of soil erosion, methods of prevention, the effect of different agricultural and forestry restoration practices on soil erosion, and so on.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that link to the following themes:

• The processes and mechanisms of soil erosion in agroforestry areas;
• Sustainable solutions and ways of preventing soil erosion;
• The effect of different agricultural restoration practices on soil erosion;
• The effect of different forestry restoration practices on soil erosion;
• The effect of different land use types on soil erosion.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Prof. Dr. Zicheng Zheng
Dr. Jigen Liu
Dr. Yuhai Bao
Guest Editors

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• soil erosion
• agricultural restoration practices
• forestry restoration practices
• land degradation
• sustainable land