[1]RAN Tao,DENG Wei.Spatial Differentiation of Soil Erosion Sensitivity in Ecologically Vulnerable Areas[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2017,24(04):182-186,190.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
24
Number of periods:
2017 04
Page number:
182-186,190
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Public date:
2017-08-28
- Title:
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Spatial Differentiation of Soil Erosion Sensitivity in Ecologically Vulnerable Areas
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RAN Tao1, DENG Wei1,2
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1. Chongqing Academy of Environmental Science, Chongqing 401147, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Keywords:
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GIS; soil erosion sensitivity; spatial differentiation; Yulin City
- CLC:
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X171
- DOI:
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- Abstract:
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Yulin City, which is located in the transition zone sandwiched between Mu Us Desert and Plateau hilly-gully region, is not only a typical ecologically vulnerable area in agro-pastoral transitional zone of North China, but also a key ecological function protection area with soil conservation and sand fixation in China. Affected by aeolian landform, arid climate, sparse vegetation and high-strength land use during recent years, soil erosion has become the main ecological disaster in Yulin. Soil erosion seriously restricts human survival and socio-economy sustainable development of the region. So many scholars have paid much attention to the soil erosion problems in the study area. Based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation theory and GIS spatial analysis function, three natural factors (precipitation, terrain and soil factors) affecting soil erosion, and other three artificial parameters (biological measures, agricultural measures and socio-economic measures factors) were collected as the evaluation indexes to make the assessment equations. Then assessment of each factor was produced and an integrated soil erosion sensitivity evaluation was examined by using GIS. Furthermore, distribution characteristics and spatial difference of sensitivity of soil erosion in the study area were also analyzed. The sensitivity of the influences was classified into four degrees. The result demonstrates that moderate sensitive is the main type of soil sensitivities in the Yulin, followed by slight sensitive and strong sensitive distribute, and the area proportion with non-sensitivity is very small. Based on the overall distribution patterns, the general trend of soil erosion sensitivity descends from the southern loess hilly-gully areas to the northern sandy marsh areas. The strong soil erosion sensitivities mainly distribute in the south of Jingbian and Dingbian Counties, the Yellow River coast area in the eastern and the part areas of six counties in the south. The evaluation results of improved soil erosion sensitivities equation were found to be consistent with the previous studies for Yulin. It fully illustrates that biological measures, agricultural measures and socio-economic measures also have the great impacts on soil erosion and human activities are the inducement of soil erosion. Especially two indicators, population density and unit land area GDP introduce into assessment could reflect the impact on soil erosion by human activities more accuracy. Therefore, irrational land use should be changed, water and soil loss prevention should be strengthened and cured urgently, and partition management for different sensitive areas should be implemented so as to prevent soil erosion aggravation. Strong sensitivity area should be delimited as the priority area for soil erosion prevention and ecological restore. While moderate sensitivity is mainly located in the area of active social and economic activities, excessive and frequent human activities causing surface environmental damage to new disaster must be avoided. Light and non-sensitivity area mainly distribute in the northern sand mars areas with the flat terrain and the abundant irrigated agriculture. Therefore, prevention awareness should be strengthened and unreasonable construction causing soil erosion should be restricted. Because light and non-sensitivity just existe in the form of relativity, irrational human activities will bring a series of ecological problems.