Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management (SLM)

• Other Authors: Tsunekawa, Atsushi (Editor), Haregeweyn, Nigussie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Herfindahl-Simpson diversity index; multivariate probit; drought prone; ordered probit; livelihood diversification; sustainable land management; sediment; land use; erosion crises; environmental impact; climate change; drought; livelihood vulnerability; Shannon-entropy index; splash erosion; rainfall simulator; splash cup; soil loss; soil detachment; disdrometer; rainfall kinetic energy; polyacrylamide; gypsum; lime; runoff; dryland; Erosion rate; ANFIS; ANN; SVM; Shihmen Reservoir watershed; Acacia decurrens; Eucalyptus; drought-prone; highland; midland; lowland; marginal soil; land degradation; endemic plant species; soil microbes; arid regions; bacteria; degraded land; fungi; ITS; microbial community; restoration; 16S rRNA; Gully Land Consolidation; backfilled loess; physical-mechanical property; microstructural characteristic; pore size distribution; sediment transport; soil erosion; RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation model); human activities; sediment delivery distributed model; sediment yield; SEDD; sediment delivery ratio; β coefficient; micro-dam; sedimentation; reclaimed farmland; constructability; Ethiopian highlands; soil organic carbon; structure stability; soil type
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This Special Issue titled "Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management" presents 13 chapters organized into four main parts. The first part deals with assessment of soil erosion that covers historical sediment dating to understand past environmental impacts due to tillage; laboratory simu...