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Article: Effects of erosion on soil chemical properties in the north central region of the United States.
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
- Author:
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Soil erosion has significant direct impacts on soil chemical properties which affect crop productivity. However, a comprehensive evaluation of erosion's effects on soil chemical characteristics is not available. Stoltenberg and White (30) reported nutrient enrichment of eroded material. Severe erosion thus acts to deplete the surface soil of plant available nutrients (1,2,31). Other studies of soils subject to erosion indicated that organic carbon (C) was a major factor in providing plant nutrients to crops (5, 15, 17, 19, 23, 24, 25). Much of the understanding of chemical changes in soils due to erosion have come from soil desurfacing studies (4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, ...