Not exact matches
But recent research has shown that
erosion rate to be far faster than the
rate at which
soil rebuilds.
In the 1950s, when the
Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) began defining tolerable rates of soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on rates of soil production were availa
Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) began defining tolerable
rates of
soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on rates of soil production were availa
soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on
rates of
soil production were availa
soil production were available.
«We can use the beryllium - 10
erosion rates as a target for successful resource conservation strategies; they can be used to develop smart environmental policies and regulations that will protect threatened
soil and water resources for generations to come.»
On the other hand, climate change scenarios estimate that the
soil loss
rates may increase by 10 - 15 % by 2050 due to an analogous increase of rainfall - induced
erosion in Europe.
As
soil erosion has huge impacts on ecosystems, food production, drinking water, carbon stocks and biodiversity, the EU has called for quantitative assessments of
soil rates at EU level, and put
soil protection at the heart of its environmental agenda.
The thin layer of topsoil that covers the earth's land surface was formed over long stretches of geological time as new
soil formation exceeded the natural
rate of
erosion.
That is, the nations with the least developed economies have experienced the highest
rates of
soil erosion, according to a team from the University of Basel in Switzerland, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the UK's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology.
To determine how much carbon is released by
erosion, the researchers combined their
soil organic carbon calculations with long - term
erosion rates (the region loses a mean of 0.7 meters of coastline per year).
This
soil, typically 6 inches or so deep, was formed over long stretches of geological time as new
soil formation exceeded the natural
rate of
erosion.
After examining data from more than 1,400 dams worldwide, it identifies the
rate of
soil erosion into a reservoir as a leading predictor of carbon dioxide emissions.
Upon taking possession of the property, the Buyer learned from the Seller's handyman that the Seller had removed foliage from the property which had increased the
rate of
soil erosion caused by the river, and that the property had experienced ten feet of
soil erosion in the past ten years.