Soil Erosion Measurement Techniques and Field Experiments, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2025 | Viewed by 368
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; hydraulics; soil erosion; sedimentology; soil; rivers; soil and water conservation; environmental science
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Interests: hydrology; hydraulics; soil erosion; sedimentology; soil; rivers; soil and water conservation; environmental science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil erosion is a process during which soil particles are first detached from the soil surface and then transported by erosive agents such as rainfall, overland flow and channelized flows in rills, ephemeral gullies and gullies. Accelerated soil erosion affects both natural and anthropogenic environments, and it is responsible for land productivity decrease due to the removal of soil organic matter and plant nutrients. The negative effects of soil erosion include in-site effects such as the degradation of soil structure, loss of organic matter and nutrient content, and reduction in cultivable soil layer. Erosion also determines off-site damage due to soil particles entering the water system such as sedimentation into channels, loss of reservoir storage, eutrophication of waterways and contamination due to fertilizer and chemical pesticides.
The accurate and repeatable measurements of erosion processes are required both for understanding and realizing correct modeling. Experiments provide an opportunity to investigate the extent to which the concepts used in models are a truly valid description of the erosion processes occurring.
The Special Issue will collect papers dealing with experimental sites for measuring soil erosion at different spatial (plot, hillslope, basin) scales and field experiments which aim to study the soil erosion processes (interrill, rill and gully erosion).
Papers describing the new methods and procedures for measuring soil erosion processes (e.g., three-dimensional photo reconstruction techniques, measurement of erosion features using aerial and terrestrial acquisition platforms, tracers) are welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Vito Ferro
Dr. Alessio Nicosia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil erosion
- sediment yield
- erosion plot
- basin
- interrill erosion
- rill erosion
- gully erosion
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