Intensive agriculture causes land degradation and other environmental problems, such as
pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, biodiversity decline, and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Over the last century extraordinary efforts have been devoted to determining soil erosion
rates (in units of mass per area and time) under a large range of climatic conditions and land …

The capture and use of water are critically important in drylands, which collectively constitute
Earth's largest biome. Drylands will likely experience lower and more unreliable rainfall as …

Agricultural terraces are common in mountain regions. They are built to provide a larger
surface area for cultivation on hillslopes and to aid farming production in the long term. This …

Water and nutrients are scarce resources in arid and semiarid ecosystems. In these regions,
biological soil crusts (BSCs) occupy a large part of the soil surface in the open spaces …

Biocrusts play crucial roles in hydrological processes by controlling soil water availability
and regulating water redistribution from source to sink areas. Most studies have examined …

Soil crusts influence many soil parameters that affect how water moves into and through the
soil, and therefore, critically influence water availability, erosion processes, nutrient fluxes …

Soil surface roughness has a strong influence on runoff and erosion, affecting surface
storage capacity, water flow routing and velocity, and modifying runoff rates. It also reduces …

The objective of this study was to simulate the evolution of soil erosion in a semi-arid
mountainous watershed (225 km 2, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco) under different …

Soil erosion coupled with high runoff poses a significant threat to the topsoil fertility,
declining its productivity and raising major environmental and socio-economic issues such …