The global dilemma of soil legacy phosphorus and its improvement strategies under recent changes in agro-ecosystem sustainability

F Solangi, X Zhu, S Khan, N Rais, A Majeed… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorus (P) is one of the six key elements in plant nutrition and effectively plays a vital
role in all major metabolic activities. It is an essential nutrient for plants linked to human food …

Sediment yield in Africa

M Vanmaercke, J Poesen, J Broeckx, J Nyssen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Several studies have compiled and analysed measured contemporary catchment sediment
yield (SY,[t km− 2 y− 1]) values for various regions of the world. Although this has …

Quantifying and mapping multiple ecosystem services change in West Africa

MDK Leh, MD Matlock, EC Cummings… - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Although ecosystem services have been identified to be declining over the previous
decades, there is no clear methodology of evaluating the impacts of land use change on …

Soil nutrient loss through erosion: Impact of different cropping systems and soil amendments in Ghana

JB Bashagaluke, V Logah, A Opoku, J Sarkodie-Addo… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Soil erosion is a multifactor threat to crop production and the environment. Most studies on
soil erosion characterization have not focused on soil nutrient loss associated with erosion …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping changes in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) landscape using machine and deep learning algorithms.-a proxy evaluation of the 2017 ban on …

C Nyamekye, B Ghansah, E Agyapong… - Environmental Challenges, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) landscapes form integral part of the Land
use land cover (LULC) in the developing worlds. However, the spatial, spectral, and …

The significance of small reservoirs in sustaining agricultural landscapes in dry areas of West Africa: A review

S Owusu, O Cofie, M Mul, J Barron - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water scarcity is a growing challenge in semi-arid and sub-humid areas. There are over
2000 small reservoirs (SRs) with storage capacities of up to 1× 106 m3 across West Africa's …

Annual water, sediment, nutrient, and organic carbon fluxes in river basins: A global meta‐analysis as a function of scale

M Mutema, V Chaplot, G Jewitt… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Process controls on water, sediment, nutrient, and organic carbon exports from the
landscape through runoff are not fully understood. This paper provides analyses from 446 …

Soil loss and run‐off characteristics under different soil amendments and cropping systems in the semi‐deciduous forest zone of Ghana

JB Bashagaluke, V Logah, A Opoku… - Soil Use and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil erosion is a major constraint to crop production on smallholder arable lands in Sub‐
Saharan Africa (SSA). Although different agronomic and mechanical measures have been …

Sediment flow paths and associated organic carbon dynamics across a Mediterranean catchment

C Boix-Fayos, E Nadeu, JM Quiñonero… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Terrestrial sedimentation buries large amounts of organic carbon (OC) annually, contributing
to the terrestrial carbon sink. The temporal significance of this sink will strongly depend on …

Diversified cropping systems for reducing soil erosion and nutrient loss and for increasing crop productivity and profitability in rainfed environments

VV Kumari, SS Balloli, M Kumar, DBV Ramana… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Globally, rainfed regions encounter several constraints that limit crop production.
Poor and degraded soils resulting from soil erosion are one among them. We hypothesized …