[1]ZHANG Lichao,GE Peilin,LI Zhaoxia,et al.Characteristics of Soil Micro-relief of the Red Soil Sloping Farmland Under Rainfall Erosion[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2018,25(06):15-21.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
25
Number of periods:
2018 06
Page number:
15-21
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Public date:
2018-10-26
- Title:
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Characteristics of Soil Micro-relief of the Red Soil Sloping Farmland Under Rainfall Erosion
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ZHANG Lichao1,2, GE Peilin1, LI Zhaoxia2, LIU Yaojun1, YU Ronggang1
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1. Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Prevention, Jiangxi Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Nanchang 330029, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Keywords:
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soil and water conservation; micro-relief; laser scanning; roughness; red soils
- CLC:
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S157
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- Abstract:
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The red soil sloping farmland weathered from Quaternary red clay and shale was selected for the field rainfall simulation tests. At the same soil surface condition, the continuous three rainfall simulations were conducted under two rainfall intensities. The soil surface micro-relief characteristics such as soil roughness and depression storage capacity were analyzed by the mm-level high-precision laser scanning and computer digital image processing method. The results show that: (1) the soil surface roughness decreases due to the combined effects of the rainfall detachment and runoff transportation with the rainfall processing; the soil surface roughness decreases sharply during the first rainfall event at the intensity of 1 mm/min, the effects of the following two rainfall events are much slighter; under the rainfall intensity of 2 mm/min, the soil surface roughness increases moderately during the second and third rainfall events on all the three sloping farmlands; soil sealing tends to reduce the roughness, and rills tend to increase roughness, changes in surface roughness depend on the balance between the two factors; the changes of the roughness in different slope positions are different during continuous rainfall; for the upslope, roughness decreases most, for the midslope, roughness decreases in a certain degree, and the roughness of downslope decreased less; (2) the changes of depression storage capacity are similar to roughness that decreases during continuous rainfall events, especially for the first rainfall; the differences of the depression storage capacity of the tested three sloping farmland are demonstrated by the stability of aggregates and soil crusts; (3) linear correlation is found between depression storage capacity and soil surface roughness, and higher relationship coefficient is found under lower rainfall intensity of 1 mm/min. The results of this study may throw a light on the soil and water conservation of sloping farmlands in southern red soil region in the future.