Soil erosion is a serious ecological and environmental problem, and the main cause of land
degradation in many ecosystems at global scale. Detachment of soil particles by raindrop …

Over a large fraction of the global landsurface, precipitation interacts with standing
vegetation or organic litter prior to reaching the mineral soil. This interaction has both …

The impact of different arable farming practices on soil erosion is only partly resolved, and
the effect of conservation tillage practices in organic agriculture on sediment loss has rarely …

Rainfall erosivity, a measure of the potential for soil erosion by water, is an important factor
for estimating soil loss. Understanding the variation tendency of rainfall erosivity is …

Rainfall erosivity is one of the key dynamic factors leading to water erosion, which causes
widespread soil erosion worldwide. This study calculated the rainfall erosivity from 1965 to …

Abstract: The effect of different rainfall patterns on surface runoff, infiltration and thus soil
losses and sediment concentrations are still in the focus of current research. In most …

The set‐up and characterisation of an indoor nozzle‐type rainfall simulator (RS) at
Wageningen University, the Netherlands, are presented. It is equipped with four Lechler …

This study investigated the development of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in an early
successional subtropical forest plantation and their impact on soil erosion. Within a …

Rainfall is a key driver of geomorphological processes ranging from impacting drops that
lead to the small-scale dislodgement of soil particles to large-scale morphogenic floods and …

The angle at which a droplet impacts determines its shearing and compaction effects on soil,
which in turn affects the formation and properties of the physical soil crust. To investigate the …