Grass ley set‐aside and soil organic matter dynamics on sandy soils in Shropshire, UK

Fullen, Michael A.; Booth, Colin A.

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“…Protective vegetative cover on sloping land serves as barriers that dissipate raindrop kinetic energy. The sward also offers a source of organic matter to bind soil particles and the dense network of grass roots aids the retention of topsoil structure and aggregate stability and promotes infiltration (Fullen and Booth, 2006). The sward root network binds soil particles together, thereby decreasing erodibility and improving stability against slope failure.…”

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Using palm‐mat geotextiles on an arable soil for water erosion control in the UK

Bhattacharyya

Fullen

Booth

2011

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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To date, most studies of the effectiveness of geotextiles on soil erosion rates and processes have been conducted in\ud laboratory experiments for less than 1 h. Hence, at Hilton (52°33′ N, 2°19′ W), UK, the effectiveness of employing palm-mat\ud geotextiles for soil erosion control under field conditions on arable loamy sands was investigated. Geotextile-mats constructed from\ud Borassus aethiopum (Borassus palm ofWest Africa) and Mauritia flexuosa (Buriti palm of South America) leaves are termed Borassus\ud mats and Buriti mats, respectively. Duplicate runoff plots (10 m ¥ 1 m on a 15° slope) had five treatments (bare, permanent grass, Borassus total plot cover, Borassus buffer strip and Buriti buffer strip). Borassus covered plots had about 72% ground cover and to differentiate between this treatment and Borassus buffer strips, the former treatment is termed Borassus completely-covered. Runoff and eroded soil were collected from each bounded plot in a concrete gutter, leading to a receptacle. Results from 08/01/2007 – 23/01/2009 (total precipitation = 1776·5 mm; n = 53 time intervals) show that using Borassus buffer strips (area coverage ~10%) on bare soil decreased runoff volume by about 71% (P > 0·05) and soil erosion by 92% (P < 0·001). Bare plots had nearly 29·1 L m-2\ud runoff and 2·36 kg m-2 soil erosion during that period. Borassus buffer strip, Buriti buffer strip and Borassus completely-covered\ud plots had similar effects in decreasing runoff volume and soil erosion. Runoff volumes largely explain the variability in soil erosion rates. Although buffer strips of Borassus mats were as effective as whole plot cover of the same mats, the longevity of Borassus mats was nearly twice that of Buriti mats. Thus, use of Borassus mats as buffer strips on bare plots is highly effective for soil erosion control. The mechanisms explaining the effectiveness of buffer strips require further studies under varied pedo-climatic conditions

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Using palm‐mat geotextiles on an arable soil for water erosion control in the UK

Bhattacharyya

Fullen

Booth

2011

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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“…Through laboratory experiments, Pan et al (2006) found that under the same rainfall conditions, grass significantly reduced eroded sediments by 81%-95% in comparison with bare ground of a 15° gradient [48]. Fullen et al (2006) reported that soil aggregate stability was higher on grassed soils than on bare soils [49]. Wang et al (2018) found that the sheet erosion rate decreased as vegetation cover increased, and herbaceous vegetation could reduce and control sheet erosion by reducing the effect of rainfall intensity or slope, especially when vegetation cover was sufficiently high [50].…”

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Influences of Plateau Zokor Burrowing on Soil Erosion and Nutrient Loss in Alpine Meadows in the Yellow River Source Zone of West China

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Plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi) are an agent actively involved in causing soil erosion and meadow degradation in the Yellow River Source Zone of West China. This study aims to quantify the amount of soil and nutrient loss from zokor mounds in relation to slope gradient and rainfall intensity, and to assess the amount of soil loss in zokor-infested areas compared with healthy meadows in Henan County, Qinghai Province. The results showed that zokor mounds were gradually lowered at a rate of 1.8–3.9 cm h−1. Soil loss occurred two min after the rain began, reaching the maximum level during the first 20 min. The rate of soil loss and nutrient loss increased with the rainfall intensity and slope gradient. When the rainfall intensity rose from 5 to 10 mm h−1, and from 10 to 15 mm h−1, the total soil loss on 10° slopes increased by 2.5 times and 3.9 times, respectively, and soil nutrient loss increased by 1.7 times and 2.7 times, respectively. As the slope gradient steepened to 20°, the corresponding figures were 2.8 times and 4.3 times for total soil loss, and 1.8 times and 2.9 times, respectively, for soil nutrient loss. When the slope rose to 30°, the soil loss increased by 3.0 and 4.5 times, and the soil nutrient loss increased by 1.8 times and 3.1 times, respectively. There was a power function between soil loss and surface runoff (S = 0.2371Q2.2307, R2 = 0.9529). The soil was eroded at a rate of 256.6 g m−2 h−1 from zokor mounds, 17.7 times higher than in intact meadows, and 1.8 times higher than in partially recovered meadows. Most of the eroded soils had a mean diameter of 0–1.2 mm. It is recommended that artificial control of plateau zokors should be implemented, together with other ecological restoration measures to restrain the soil erosion problem caused by zokor activities.

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“…The paper by Fox et al (2006) also considers the use of vegetative structures and bioengineering techniques (log debris dams and log erosion barriers) for land restoration following forest fires in the Mediterranean. Runoff and erosion plots represent an interim spatial scale (1-25 m 2 ), and are used by a number of authors (eg, Davies et al, 2006;Fullen and Booth, 2006;Mati et al, 2006;Rickson, 2006) to generate data on the effect of vegetation and simulated vegetation (in the form of geotextiles) on geomorphological processes operating on slopes.…”

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Fluvial geomorphology

Stott

2010

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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This progress report on the discipline of fluvial geomorphology reviews 147 papers published in 21 key journals during the calendar years of 2006 and 2007. Papers are grouped by themes to cover 10 subject areas. The themes were chosen by classifying all geomorphological articles published in a single leading journal for the same period, of which (44%) were within the subject area of fluvial geomorphology. Themes (in order of number contributing to the total) were: ‘River management, restoration and effects of vegetation on fluvial systems’; ‘Soil erosion and control’; ‘Fluvial hydraulics’; ‘Fluvial sediment transport’; ‘Gully and hillslope sediment transfer’; ‘Modelling the fluvial environment’; ‘River regulation, channel change and human influences’; ‘Advances in methodology in fluvial geomorphology’; ‘Bank erosion in fluvial systems’; and ‘Holocene fluvial chronology’.

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Grass ley set‐aside and soil organic matter dynamics on sandy soils in Shropshire, UK

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Using palm‐mat geotextiles on an arable soil for water erosion control in the UK

Using palm‐mat geotextiles on an arable soil for water erosion control in the UK

Influences of Plateau Zokor Burrowing on Soil Erosion and Nutrient Loss in Alpine Meadows in the Yellow River Source Zone of West China

Fluvial geomorphology

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