This new edition of Soil Erosion Research Methods retains the themes and layout of the first edition. However, most chapters have been revised and some additional chapters have been added. There are new chapters on modeling wind and water erosion. Extensive revisions and updating have been done in chapters dealing with assessment of erosivity and erodibility, erosion, crop productivity, measuring sediment yield from river basins and field plot techniques. There is extensive updating of current statistics on the global magnitude of soil erosion by water and wind and on denudation rates. Several new authors have made significant improvements in revising and updating available information.
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 : Soil Erosion by Wind and Water : Problems and Prospects
Chapter 2 : Laboratory and Field Plots for Erosion Research
Chapter 3 : Measuring Sediment Yield from River Basins
Chapter 4 : Rainfall Simulators for Soil Erosion Research
Chapter 5 : The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
Chapter 6 : Modeling Soil Erosion
Chapter 7 : Research Progress on Soil Erosion Processes and A Basis for Soil Conservation Practices
Chapter 8 : Erodibility and Erosivity
Chapter 9 : Assessing Vegetative Cover and Management Effects
Chapter 10 : Monitoring Soil Erosion’s Impact on Crop Productivity
Chapter 11 : Wind Erosion
Chapter 12 : Methods for Investigating Basic Processes and Conditions Affecting Wind Erosion
Index
