Effects of crop canopies on rain splash detachment.

Crops are one of the main factors affecting soil erosion in sloping fields. To determine the characteristics of splash erosion under crop canopies, corn, soybean, millet, and winter wheat were collected, and the relationship among splash erosion, rainfall intensity, and throughfall intensity under d...

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Main Authors: Bo Ma, Xiaoling Yu, Fan Ma, Zhanbin Li, Faqi Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4084632?pdf=render