Land degradation, particularly soil erosion, is currently a major challenge for Nepal. With a
high rate of population growth, subsistence-based rural economy, and increasingly intense …

Cohesive sediment is an important component of aquatic environments, which must be
monitored and managed for environmental, engineering, and human health reasons. While …

Restoration is becoming a vital tool to counteract coastal ecosystem degradation. Modifying
transplant designs of habitat-forming organisms from dispersed to clumped can amplify …

Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil
erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing …

Living plant roots modify both mechanical and hydrological characteristics of the soil matrix
(eg soil aggregate stability by root exudates, soil cohesion, infiltration rate, soil moisture …

Worldwide, shallow slope failure is a problem causing environmental and economic
damage. Vegetation plays an important role for the stabilization of slopes. Accordingly …

Until recently, one-way relationships between flow dynamics, geomorphology and plant
ecology were considered dominantly when studying the functioning of river systems …

While it has been demonstrated in numerous studies that the aboveground characteristics of
the vegetation are of particular importance with respect to soil erosion control, this study …

Surface soil erosion is one of the most common slope degradation processes. In this study,
microbial calcification (MC), a stimulated natural biocementation process, was investigated …

Evaluation of grass influence on soil erosion process can provide important information in
soil and water conservation. The laboratory experiment was conducted to study runoff and …