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Water erosion in the Southern Ural steppes

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Ecological-hydrological analysis of erosion processes on the key watersheds of Southern Ural steppe was used to determine the surface runoff as a function of the physico-geographic and anthropogenic conditions, i.e., snow storage and soil moisture reserves before winter, whose contribution reaches 68–81%. The rate of humus losses in chernozems and dark chestnut soils was calculated for different periods in accordance with erosion stress and the extent of the economic development of the territory. Agroecological types of arable lands with different surface runoff characteristics, rates of natural soil formation, and erosionrelated soil losses are identified. Measures aimed to reduce humus losses in soils are proposed. Relationships between the rates of soil formation and erosion losses are proposed to be used as ecological-hydrological criterion (index) of soil stability.

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  1. Institute of Steppe, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pionerskaya 11, Orenburg, 460000, Russia

    A. I. Kliment’ev, A. A. Chibilev & D. G. Polyakov

  2. State Institution “Orenburg Research Center,”, Box 59, ul. Sovetskaya 11, Orenburg, 460014, Russia

    Yu. M. Nesterenko

  3. Orenburg State Pedagogical University, ul. Sovetskaya 19, Orenburg, 460844, Russia

    I. V. Lozhkin

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Kliment’ev, A.A. Chibilev, Yu.M. Nesterenko, I.V. Lozhkin, D.G. Polyakov, 2010, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 105–116.

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Kliment’ev, A.I., Chibilev, A.A., Nesterenko, Y.M. et al. Water erosion in the Southern Ural steppes. Water Resour 37, 102–112 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807810010100

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