Sentences with phrase «soil erosion rates»

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But recent research has shown that erosion rate to be far faster than the rate at which soil rebuilds.

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«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.