Productivity of soils: assessing long-term changes due to erosion

FJ Pierce, WE Larson, RH Dowdy… - Journal of Soil and …, 1983 - jswconline.org
An approach to evaluating the long-term effects of erosion on the productive potential of the
US soil resource base is presented. This approach involves the application of a numerical …

Soil erosion effects on soil productivity: A research perspective

National Soil Erosion-Soil Productivity … - Journal of Soil and …, 1981 - jswconline.org
ACCURATE estimates of future soil productivity are essential to make agricultural policy
decisions and to plan the use of land from the field scale to the national level. Soil …

Soil productivity in the Corn Belt: An assessment of erosion's long-term effects

FJ Pierce, RH Dowdy, WE Larson… - Journal of Soil and …, 1984 - jswconline.org
Estimates of erosion's effects on soil productivity in the Corn Belt are projected over 25, 50,
and 100 years. The weighted average loss in productivity is less than 8 percent for any …

EPIC: A new method for assessing erosion's effect on soil productivity

JR Williams, KG Renard, PT Dyke - Journal of Soil and water …, 1983 - jswconline.org
THE mathematical model EPIC (Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator) was developed
recently to determine the relationship between soil erosion and soil productivity in the United …

[CITATION][C] EPIC-A model for assessing the effects of erosion on soil productivity

JR Williams, PT Dyke, CA Jones - Developments in environmental …, 1983 - Elsevier
Accurate estimates of future soil productivity are essential in agricultural decision making
and planning from the field scale to the national level. Soil erosion depletes soil productivity …

Physical properties of selected soils by erosion class

B Lowery, J Swan, T Schumacher… - Journal of soil and water …, 1995 - jswconline.org
The effects of soil erosion on soil fertility and yield have been documented with data as early
as the 1900s, but there is limited literature relating soil erosion and soil physical properties …

Current criteria for determining soil loss tolerance

DE McCormack, KK Young… - Determinants of soil loss …, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
Current criteria for determining soil loss tolerance (T value) are imperfect. Much is still
unknown about the rates at which a favorable root zone forms and about the effects of …

Using soil erosion models for global change studies

J Williams, M Nearing, A Nicks, E Skidmore… - Journal of Soil and …, 1996 - jswconline.org
Future changes in climate and atmospheric CO2 concentration will change the hydrologic
cycle, affecting important soil-plant-water interactions, which in turn affect soil erosion rates …

The offsite impact of soil erosion on the water treatment industry

TP Holmes - Land economics, 1988 - JSTOR
The past five decades of soil conservation effort in the United States have been guided by
an abiding concern with maintaining the productivity of agricultural land for future …

Soil erosion effects on properties and productivity of two Kentucky soils

WW Frye, SA Ebelhar, LW Murdock… - Soil Science Society of …, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
Few attempts have been made to identify the yield‐limiting effects of soil erosion and to
quantify losses in soil productivity. The objective of our study was to determine the effects of …