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Article: Organic carbon and nitrogen in soils of semiarid Argentina.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Wind erosion is an important soil degradation process in semiarid regions of the world (Dregne, 1986) including the semiarid Pampas of Argentina (Buschiazzo et al., 1999). This process produces a selection of soil particles and aggregates in the soil, decreasing the proportion of size fractions highly susceptible to be eroded by wind, mainly the less than 0.84 mm (0.03 in) (Chepil, 1945), and increasing the greater than 0.84 mm (0.03 in) by residual accumulation. Selection by wind affects in the same way similar sized individual particles and aggregates.
Most of studies on wind erosion effects on soil properties analyzed the changes of particle sizes but not of ...