The impact of land use and rainfall patterns on the soil loss of the hillslope

Meng，Xianmeng1; Zhu，Yan1; Yin，Maosheng2; Liu，Dengfeng3

2021-12-01

10.1038/s41598-021-95819-5

Scientific Reports   影响因子和分区

2045-2322

2045-2322

In order to discuss the effect of rainfall patterns and land use types on soil erosion, the experiment is carried out under natural rainfall events on different kinds of runoff plots in Zhangjiachong watershed. Based on the observed data of 44 individual rainfall events including moderate, heavy and storm rainfall, the differences of erosion modulus among hedgerows plots, terrace plots, and slope plots under different rainfall patterns are analyzed. And the effects of hedgerow and terrace patterns on control of soil loss are revealed by RUSLE. Wilcoxon signed rank test is applied to analyze the significant difference of erosion modulus in different plots and the coefficient of variation is used to compare the characteristics of erosion modulus under different rainfall patterns. The results show that the soil erosion modulus of earth banked terrace has the highest value and the lowest soil erosion modulus occurs in the slope land with hedgerows. The coefficients of variation for soil erosion modulus under heavy and storm rainfall are larger than that of moderate rainfall. Hedgerow pattern can effectively control soil erosion under moderate and heavy rainfall while the effect of hedgerow is considerably weakened under storm rainfall. Earth banked terraces own the highest erosion modulus followed by slope land and stone dike terraces.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China[51979252,51779203]

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Multidisciplinary Sciences

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1.School of Environmental Studies,China University of Geosciences,Wuhan,430074,China
2.School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China
3.School of Water Resources and Hydropower,Xi’an University of Technology,Xi’an,710048,China

Meng，Xianmeng,Zhu，Yan,Yin，Maosheng,et al. The impact of land use and rainfall patterns on the soil loss of the hillslope[J]. Scientific Reports,2021,11(1).

Meng，Xianmeng,Zhu，Yan,Yin，Maosheng,&Liu，Dengfeng.(2021).The impact of land use and rainfall patterns on the soil loss of the hillslope.Scientific Reports,11(1).

Meng，Xianmeng,et al."The impact of land use and rainfall patterns on the soil loss of the hillslope".Scientific Reports 11.1(2021).