China has been undergoing dramatic land-use change since the1980s. More arable lands
have been converted to orchards to produce high-value fruits. There is an urgent need to …

Erosion and connectivity are spatially varied processes key to determining sediment
transport and delivery to downstream waterbodies. However, we find few studies that …

The Loess Plateau of China suffers from severe erosion, which results in a great variety of
economic and ecological problems. For scientific control of soil erosion, the key questions …

Since the end of the second World War, the landscapes of the US Corn Belt have
increasingly been dominated by large-scale, industrialized agricultural production. Although …

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 …

The application of remote sensing data has been significant in modeling soil erosion.
However, previous studies have fallen short in elucidating and lacked an understanding of …

Small reservoirs, as the preferred blue-green engineering infrastructure for use against
intensive runoff processes, have risen in number in Central Europe during the past three …

The maize–soybean rotation (MSR) dominates the Midwest United States and degrades
many ecological functions. Black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) plantation forestry (PF) and alley …

Conversion of grassland to cropland has been linked to many complex environmental
challenges in natural resource systems. South Dakota is a mosaic of grasslands, wetlands …

Soil erosion leads to soil loss and affects the hydraulic and mechanical properties of soils,
and as a result, the soil fertility, eco-environmental quality, and reliability of engineering …