YANG Yongsheng, QIU Yongli, ZHOU Xiaoquan, et al. Effects of Disturbed Moss Dominated Crusts on Soil Moisture and Wind Eosion in Mu Us Sandland[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2015, 35(1): 20-24.
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YANG Yongsheng, QIU Yongli, ZHOU Xiaoquan, et al. Effects of Disturbed Moss Dominated Crusts on Soil Moisture and Wind Eosion in Mu Us Sandland[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2015, 35(1): 20-24. DOI: 10.13961/j.cnki.stbctb.2015.01.005.
Effects of Disturbed Moss Dominated Crusts on Soil Moisture and Wind Eosion in Mu Us Sandland
[Objective] To discuss the necessity and feasibility of biological soil crusts(BSCs) in the Mu Us sandland and provide an experiment basis for the efficient utilization of BSCs in this region.[Methods] Six treatments including bare sand
moss dominated crusts alone
disturbed moss dominated crusts alone
Arternisia ordosica alone
A. ordosica combined with moss dominated crusts and A. ordosica combined with disturbed moss dominated crusts were settled in the south edge of the Mu Us sandland
and the effects of BSCs on soil moisture and wind erosion were analyzed by dynamic monitoring the soil moisture and wind erosion of each treatment.[Results] (1) Moss dominated crusts in Mu Us sandland significantly improved the soil moisture content in shallow layer and reduced the soil moisture content in deep layer. (2) Human disturbance on moss dominated crusts reduced the soil moisture in shallow layer and increase the infiltration depth of rainwater. (3) Compared with bare sand
the contribution of other five treatments to reducing wind erosion were found to decrease in the following order:A. ordosica combined with moss dominated crusts (97.01%)> A. ordosica combined with disturbed of moss dominated crusts (90.87%)> moss dominated crusts alone (89.63%)> disturbance of moss dominated crusts alone (69.50%)> A. ordosica alone (64.62%).[Conclusion] Appropriate disturbances on moss dominated crusts covered by higher coverage of vegetation is beneficial to improving the soil water environment to certain degree on the premise that the wind erosion could not dramatically increase
but the disturbance in the sites without vegetation or with only little vegetation during gale seasons must be prohibited.
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