An Index Guiding Temporal Planting Policies for Wind Erosion Reduction

Abstract

Vegetation cover has spatial as well as temporal characteristics, but the latter are often neglected. Temporal cover characteristics were explored to recommend planting policies for returning arable land into land better protected from serious wind erosion during late autumn, winter, and particularly early spring, when crop cover is non existent. An index combining a wind erosive factor and a soil cover factor permits relative quantification of expected erosion, allowing a forecasting of the wind erosion hazard. This index was quantified under the conditions of Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, but derived planting policies using the index can be extended to

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