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Dynamics of agricultural soil erosion in European Russia

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Socioeconomic transformation together with climate change in recent decades significantly affected the geography of agricultural erosion in European Russia. Calculations of erosion rate and soil loss from slopes using logical-mathematical erosion models within different landscape zones and administrative regions revealed spatial-temporal regularities in the dynamics of these parameters and made it possible to assess the role of changes in the main natural and anthropogenic factors of erosion. A universal significant reduction in the mass of soil material washed from tilled slopes is revealed on the background of multidirectional changes in erosion rate.

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    L. F. Litvin, Z. P. Kiryukhina, S. F. Krasnov & N. G. Dobrovol’skaya

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Original Russian Text © L.F. Litvin, Z.P. Kiryukhina, S.F. Krasnov, N.G. Dobrovol’skaya, 2017, published in Pochvovedenie, 2017, No. 11, pp. 1390–1400.

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Litvin, L.F., Kiryukhina, Z.P., Krasnov, S.F. et al. Dynamics of agricultural soil erosion in European Russia. Eurasian Soil Sc. 50, 1344–1353 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229317110084

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