International Soil and Water Conservation Research

13/03/2024

09/11/2023

Recently, we have released a special issue of Special Issue in Honor of Dr. Mark Nearing with focus on Advances in soil erosion research: processes, measurement, and modeling.

In order to enhance the impact of the special issue and foster a deeper engagement with both our authors and audience, we are pleased to announce the organization of a series of online lectures as webinar for the special issue. The first webinar for the serial is scheduled on Nov 15, 2023 @9:00-10:00 am (GMT+8:00 Being Time). Please check your local time at https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

08/04/2023

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633921000903
The study is focused on a semi-arid region in Arizona in the United States, where convective rainfall dominates the precipitation and summer flow. This type of rainfall usually covers a limited spatial extent with a relatively short duration but high intensity

12/03/2023

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633921000228
For thousands of years, terracing has been one of the most important systems for preventing soil erosion, conserving water, and increasing agricultural production. Despite having a long history, the wide-ranging effects and mechanisms of terracing are poorly understood owing to large-scale spatial and temporal distribution patterns and the challenges related to assessing the ecosystem services of terraced landscapes. This paper reviews comprehensively the effect of terraces by describing the mechanisms behind terraced systems.

08/03/2023

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633922000399
Soil erosion by water is known to be a major driver of land degradation. Splash erosion is the initial stage of water erosion and directly contributes to the detachment of soil particles on sloping land. Splash erosion may be exacerbated or mitigated by ongoing land use/cover change. To estimate the effects of various land use and management systems on splash erosion in the humid tropics, a research team in China measured the actual splash erosion under natural rainfall conditions in a tropical rainforest (TR), rubber monoculture (RM), and four rubber agroforestry ecosystems.

04/03/2023

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095633922000788
The crop cover-management (C-) factor in arable landscapes describes the soil erosion susceptibility associated with seasonally cultivated crops. Previous informatics and computational limitations have led many modeling studies to prescribe C-factor values and assume spatial and temporal stationarity. However, the multiple influencing factors ranging from parcel-scale crop cultivation and management to regional-scale rainfall regimes motivate new methods to capture this variation when identifying at-risk areas.
The European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) research team defines a multi-component method to derive the C-factor by associating time series of canopy and residue surface cover from Sentinel-2 and climate-specific rainfall erosivity with Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) field parcel data from European Union member states.