Dynamics of soil erosion as influenced by watershed management practices: a case study of the Agula watershed in the semi-arid highlands of northern Ethiopia

AA Fenta, H Yasuda, K Shimizu, N Haregeweyn… - Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Since the past two decades, watershed management practices such as construction of stone
bunds and establishment of exclosures have been widely implemented in the semi-arid …

Simulating climate change impact on soil erosion using RUSLE model A case study in a watershed of mid-Himalayan landscape

S Gupta, S Kumar - Journal of Earth System Science, 2017 - Springer
Climate change, particularly due to the changed precipitation trend, can have a severe
impact on soil erosion. The effect is more pronounced on the higher slopes of the Himalayan …

Economic benefit and ecological cost of enlarging tea cultivation in subtropical China: Characterizing the trade-off for policy implications

S Su, C Wan, J Li, X Jin, J Pi, Q Zhang, M Weng - Land Use Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Cash crop expansion has become a global land use issue in recent decades. While the
enlarging cash crop cultivation brings promising profitability, it can impair the delivery of …

Potential impacts of climate change on soil erosion vulnerability across the conterminous United States

C Segura, G Sun, S McNulty, Y Zhang - Journal of Soil and Water …, 2014 - jswconline.org
Rainfall runoff erosivity (R) is one key climate factor that controls water erosion. Quantifying
the effects of climate change–induced erosivity change is important for identifying critical …

Estimation of soil erosion in some sections of Lower Jinsha River based on RUSLE

L Jiang, Z Yao, Z Liu, S Wu, R Wang, L Wang - Natural Hazards, 2015 - Springer
Soil erosion increasingly poses a great threat to human food security and environmental
quality. It is necessary to implement the assessment of soil erosion so as to provide …

Assessing soil erosion risk using RUSLE through a GIS open source desktop and web application

L Duarte, AC Teodoro, JA Gonçalves, D Soares… - Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Soil erosion is a serious environmental problem. An estimation of the expected soil loss by
water-caused erosion can be calculated considering the Revised Universal Soil Loss …

Spatio-temporal assessment of soil erosion at Kuala Lumpur metropolitan city using remote sensing data and GIS

M Khosrokhani, B Pradhan - Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The main purpose of this paper is to assess and predict soil erosion and its dynamism
observation at Kuala Lumpur metropolitan city using universal soil loss equation (USLE). To …

A synthesized approach for estimating the C-factor of RUSLE for a mixed-landscape watershed: A case study in the Gongshui watershed, southern China

H Yan, L Wang, TW Wang, Z Wang, ZH Shi - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cover-management factor (C-factor) in the revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE)
indicates the effects of vegetation cover and management practices on water erosion. The …

Progressive landscape fragmentation in relation to cash crop cultivation

S Su, C Yang, Y Hu, F Luo, Y Wang - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
Cash crop cultivation has been a critical driver of land use change in many countries around
the world. However, few efforts have been made to quantify the relationships between cash …

Global analysis of the cover-management factor for soil erosion modeling

M Xiong, G Leng, Q Tang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Land use and management practices (LUMPs) play a critical role in regulating soil loss. The
cover-management factor (C-factor) in Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE)-type models is …