Responses of runoff and soil erosion to planting pattern, row direction, and straw mulching on sloped farmland in the corn belt of northeast China

2021 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
pp. 106935
Author(s):  
Jilei Wang ◽  
Xiangxue Shi ◽  
Zizhong Li ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yanqing Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Corn Belt ◽  
Planting Pattern ◽  
Straw Mulching

scholarly journals A Quantitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Organic Matter Concentration in the Topsoil of Black Soil in Northeast China Based on Spatial Heterogeneous Patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Zhenbo Du ◽  
Bingbo Gao ◽  
Cong Ou ◽  
Zhenrong Du ◽  
Jianyu Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Soil Type ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Black Soil ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Soil Zone ◽  
Rainfed Farming ◽  
Study Results

Black soil is fertile, abundant with organic matter (OM) and is exceptional for farming. The black soil zone in northeast China is the third-largest black soil zone globally and produces a quarter of China’s commodity grain. However, the soil organic matter (SOM) in this zone is declining, and the quality of cultivated land is falling off rapidly due to overexploitation and unsustainable management practices. To help develop an integrated protection strategy for black soil, this study aimed to identify the primary factors contributing to SOM degradation. The geographic detector, which can detect both linear and nonlinear relationships and the interactions based on spatial heterogeneous patterns, was used to quantitatively analyze the natural and anthropogenic factors affecting SOM concentration in northeast China. In descending order, the nine factors affecting SOM are temperature, gross domestic product (GDP), elevation, population, soil type, precipitation, soil erosion, land use, and geomorphology. The influence of all factors is significant, and the interaction of any two factors enhances their impact. The SOM concentration decreases with increased temperature, population, soil erosion, elevation and terrain undulation. SOM rises with increased precipitation, initially decreases with increasing GDP but then increases, and varies by soil type and land use. Conclusions about detailed impacts are presented in this paper. For example, wind erosion has a more significant effect than water erosion, and irrigated land has a lower SOM content than dry land. Based on the study results, protection measures, including conservation tillage, farmland shelterbelts, cross-slope ridges, terraces, and rainfed farming are recommended. The conversion of high-quality farmland to non-farm uses should be prohibited.

scholarly journals Soil erosion affects variations of soil organic carbon and soil respiration along a slope in Northeast China

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Li ◽  
Haicheng Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyuan Wang ◽  
Shulan Cheng ◽  
Huajun Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Respiration ◽  
Northeast China

Plutonium as a tracer for soil erosion assessment in northeast China

2015 ◽  
Vol 511 ◽  
pp. 176-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihong Xu ◽  
Jixin Qiao ◽  
Shaoming Pan ◽  
Xiaolin Hou ◽  
Per Roos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Soil Erosion Assessment

Soil erosion significantly decreases aggregate-associated OC and N in agricultural soils of Northeast China

2022 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 107677
Author(s):  
Haiqiang Li ◽  
Hansong Zhu ◽  
Chenglong Liang ◽  
Xiaorong Wei ◽  
Yufei Yao
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Agricultural Soils

scholarly journals Straw mulching is not always a useful post-fire stabilization technique for reducing soil erosion

Geoderma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Fernández-Fernández ◽  
C. Vieites-Blanco ◽  
M.X. Gómez-Rey ◽  
S.J. González-Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Straw Mulching ◽  
Stabilization Technique

scholarly journals Soil degradation: a problem threatening the sustainable development of agriculture in Northeast China

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.B. Liu ◽  
X.Y. Zhang ◽  
Y.X. Wang ◽  
Y.Y. Sui ◽  
S.L. Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Soil Organic Matter ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Soil Degradation ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Organic Matter Content ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Grain Production

Soil degradation that results from erosion, losses of organic matter and nutrients, or soil compaction are of great concern in every agricultural region of the world. The control of soil erosion and loss of organic matter has been proposed as critical to agricultural and environmental sustainability of Northeast China. This region is bread basket of China where the fertile and productive soils, Mollisols (also called Black soils), are primarily distributed. In this paper, we introduce the importance of Northeast China’s grain production to China, and describe the changes of sown acreage and grain production in past decades. This paper also summarizes the distribution, area and intensity of water erosion, changes in the number of gullies and gully density, thickness of top soil layer, soil organic matter content, bulk density, field water holding capacity, and infiltration rates; the number of soil microorganism and main enzyme activities from soil erosion in the region are also summarized. The moderately and severely water-eroded area accounted for 31.4% and 7.9% of the total, and annual declining rate is 1.8%. Erosion rate is 1.24–2.41 mm/year, and soil loss in 1°, 5° and 15° sloping farmlands is 3 t/ha/year, 78 t/ha/year and 220.5 t/ha/year, respectively. SOC content of uncultivated soil was nearly twice that of soil with a 50-year cultivation history, and the average annual declining rate of soil organic matter was 0.5%. Proper adoption of crop rotation can increase or maintain the quantity and quality of soil organic matter, and improve soil chemical and physical properties. Proposed strategies for erosion control, in particular how tillage management, terraces and strip cultivation, or soil amendments contribute to maintain or restore the productivity of severely eroded farmland, are discussed in the context of agricultural sustainability with an emphasis on the Chinese Mollisols.

Mechanical Straw Mulching of Irrigation Furrows: Soil Erosion and Nutrient Losses

1997 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton C. Shock ◽  
Joe H. Hobson ◽  
Majid Seddigh ◽  
Byron M. Shock ◽  
Timothy D. Stieber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Straw Mulching

scholarly journals Characteristics of Material Migration During Soil Erosion in Sloped Farmland in the Black Soil Region of Northeast China

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 194008291985683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congying Shen ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Lanpo Zhao ◽  
Xiaohong Xu ◽  
Xiankun Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Specific Surface ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Soil Nutrients ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Fine Particles ◽  
Clay Content ◽  
Black Soil ◽  
Available Phosphorus ◽  
Black Soil Region

Loss of soil and water from sloped farmland is a major cause of regional soil degradation and declining productivity. We conducted a preliminary study on the characteristics of sloped farmland in the black soil region of Northeast China using natural rainfall-runoff plot experiments in the field. In 0-20 cm soil depth, clay content (<0.002 mm), silt content (0.002-0.02 mm), specific surface area, <0.002 mm and 0.002 to 0.02 mm microaggregates content, available phosphorus, and total phosphorus tended to increase from the top to the bottom of the slope, while sand content (>0.05 mm), 0.02 to 0.05 mm and 0.05 to 0.25 mm microaggregates content, tended to decline. This suggests that soil material and nutrients were gradually transported from the top to the bottom of the slope because of erosion, soil tended toward desertification in texture, and fertility was degraded. The content of available phosphorus and total phosphorus was positively linearly related to clay content, specific surface area, and 0.002 to 0.02 mm microaggregates content. This indicates that soil nutrients migrated down with fine particles. Therefore, soil erosion leads to the migration and loss of soil nutrients, <0.002 mm fine particles and 0.002 to 0.02 mm microaggregates on the slope, which was the main cause of soil fertility degradation.

A remote sensing approach for evaluating regional-scale topsoil loss in the Midwestern United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Larsen ◽  
Evan Thaler ◽  
Qian Yu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Corn Belt ◽  
Midwestern United States

&lt;p&gt;Soil erosion in agricultural landscapes reduces crop yields and influences the global carbon cycle. However, the magnitude of historical topsoil loss remains poorly quantified at large, regional spatial scales, hindering predictions of economic losses to farmers and quantification of the role soil erosion plays in the carbon cycle. We focus on one of the world&amp;#8217;s most productive agricultural regions, the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States and use a novel spectral remote sensing method to map areas of complete topsoil loss in agricultural fields. Using high-resolution satellite images and the association between topsoil loss and topographic curvature, we use high resolution LiDAR topographic data to scale-up soil loss predictions to 3.7x10&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt; km&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; of the Corn Belt. Our results indicate 34&amp;#177;12% of the region has completely lost topsoil as a result of agriculturally-accelerated erosion. Soil loss is most prevalent on convex slopes, and hilltops throughout the region are often completely denuded of topsoil indicating that tillage is a major driver of erosion, yet tillage erosion is not simulated in models used to assess soil loss trends in the U.S. We estimate that soil regenerative farming practices could restore 16&amp;#177;4.4 Pg of carbon to the exposed subsoil in the region. Soil regeneration would offset at least $2.5&amp;#177;0.3 billion in annual economic losses to farmers while generating a carbon sink equivalent to 8&amp;#177;3 years of U.S. CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; emissions, or ~14% of the global soil carbon lost since the advent of agriculture.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

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