Assessment of soil erosion in the Dongting Lake Basin, China: Patterns, drivers, and implications.

ABSTRACT: Soil loss caused by erosion is a global problem. Therefore, the assessment of soil erosion and the its driving mechanism are of great significance to soil conservation. However, soil erosion is affected by both climate change and human activities, which have not been quantified, and few researchers studied the differences in the driving mechanisms of soil erosion depending on the land use type. Therefore, the spatiotemporal characteristics and changing trends of soil erosion in the Dongting Lake Basin were analyzed in this study. Geographic detectors were used to identify the dominant factors affecting soil erosion in different land use types. In this study, a sensitivity experiment was conducted to clarify the relative contributions of climate change and human activities to soil erosion c

SUBMITTER: Xiao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8719766 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature