The global sediment cycle is a fundamental feature of the Earth system, balancing
competing factors such as orogeny, physical–chemical erosion and human action. In this …

Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil
erosion, which has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity …

Globally, inland waters receive a significant but ill‐defined quantity of terrestrial carbon (C).
When summed, the contemporary estimates for the three possible fates of C in inland waters …

The role of soil erosion in terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration and release remains one of
the most important uncertainties in our attempts to determine the potential of soils to mediate …

Earth-surface processes operate across erosionally dominated landscapes and deliver
sediment to depositional systems that can be preserved over a range of timescales. The …

BACKGROUND Earth's soil has formed by processes that have maintained a persistent and
expansive global soil mantle, one that in turn provided the stage for the evolution of the vast …

Purpose Humanity has been modifying the planet in a measurable way for thousands of
years. Recently, this influence has been such that some feel we are in a new geological …

Soil hydrological properties and aggregate stability are strongly impacted by erosion and
management practices. However, magnitudes of the erosion-induced changes in topsoil …