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Experimental Study of Factors Affecting Soil Erodibility

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The effect of different factors and preparation conditions of monofraction samples from the arable horizon of leached chernozem on soil erodibility and its relationship with soil tensile strength (STS) has been studied. The exposure of samples at 38°C reduces their erodibility by two orders of magnitude. The drying of samples, on the contrary, increases their erodibility. It has been shown that erodibility decreases during the experiment. It has been found that the inoculation of soil with yeast cultures (Naganishia albida, Lipomyces tetrasporus) reliably increases the STS value in 1.5–1.9 times. The sterile soil is eroded more intensively than the unsterile soil: at 4.9 and 0.3 g/(m2 s), respectively. The drying of soil followed by wetting to the initial water content (30%) has no significant effect on the STS value in almost all experimental treatments.

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Larionov, O.G. Bushueva, A.V. Gorobets, N.G. Dobrovolskaya, Z.P. Kiryukhina, S.F. Krasnov, L.F. Litvin, I.A. Maksimova, I.I. Sudnitsyn, 2018, published in Pochvovedenie, 2018, No. 3, pp. 347–356.

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Larionov, G.A., Bushueva, O.G., Gorobets, A.V. et al. Experimental Study of Factors Affecting Soil Erodibility. Eurasian Soil Sc. 51, 336–344 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229318030067

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