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Specific features of water erosion of thin soils under conditions of nonpercolative water regime and intense recreational loads were studied in the Ol’khon region (Irkutsk oblast). An experiment on the transfer of terrigenous particles under the impact of rainfall simulation was performed. A thorough description of landscape characteristics affecting water erosion development was made. As a result, a multiple regression equation linking the transported matter with the slope steepness, projective cover of vegetation, the degree of vegetation degradation, and the fine sand content in the upper soil horizon was developed; the multiple correlation coefficient R reached 0.86. On this basis, the map of water erosion assessment for the study area was compiled with the use of landscape and topographic maps. The maximum intensity of water erosion is typical of the anthropogenically transformed landscapes on steep slopes with the low vegetative cover on the mountainous noncalcareous steppe soils and on thin loamy sandy surface-gravelly chestnut-like soils.
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Original Russian Text © T.I. Znamenskaya, J.V. Vanteeva, S.V. Solodyankina, 2018, published in Pochvovedenie, 2018, No. 2, pp. 221–228.
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Znamenskaya, T.I., Vanteeva, J.V. & Solodyankina, S.V. Factors of the Development of Water Erosion in the Zone of Recreation Activity in the Ol’khon Region. Eurasian Soil Sc. 51, 221–228 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229318020151
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