Land degradation is one of the most important factors responsible for the alarming situation
of food security, human health, and socioeconomic development in the country. Currently …

Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

Context As urbanization continues, ecosystem stability faces serious challenges. Ecological
security patterns have become a main tool with which the contradictions between economic …

In this research, a long-term (2014–2020) approach to quantify surface runoff and soil loss
generated by different land use and precipitation regimes on Pisha sandstone hillslopes …

Soil piping is a widespread, although often overlooked land degradation process. So far,
subsurface soil erosion studies have been focused on the importance of soil piping in …

Background Soil erosion is one of the major threats in the Ethiopian highlands. In this study,
soil erosion in the Muga watershed of the Upper Blue Nile Basin (Abay) under historical and …

In the loess plateau, due to the vegetation recovery has achieved preliminary results, while it
is controversial whether the vegetation cover can be increased unrestrictedly for a long time …

Modeling monthly rainfall erosivity is vital to the optimization of measures to control soil
erosion. Rain gauge data combined with satellite observations can aid in enhancing rainfall …

Climate change projections over the Mediterranean basin point toward an increase in
frequency and intensity of extreme events that will directly impact ecosystems resilience. In …

Gully erosion is a severe form of soil erosion. However, current understanding of the relative
dominance of processes that drive the development of gully erosion is limited. This study …