SHAO Zhen, ZHANG Fu, CHEN Jin, et al. Response of Soil Erosion in Different Grasslands to Erosive Rainfall in Western Loess Hilly Region[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2017, 37(6): 9-15.
DOI:
SHAO Zhen, ZHANG Fu, CHEN Jin, et al. Response of Soil Erosion in Different Grasslands to Erosive Rainfall in Western Loess Hilly Region[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2017, 37(6): 9-15. DOI: 10.13961/j.cnki.stbctb.2017.06.002.
Response of Soil Erosion in Different Grasslands to Erosive Rainfall in Western Loess Hilly Region
[Objective] The responses of natural and artificial grassland to different types of erosive rainfall in loess hilly region of Western China were researched to provide guidance for vegetation construction and soil erosion control in this area.[Methods] Based on the data measured in 2007-2015 from runoff plots located in Anjiagou catchment
Dingxi City
we analyzed the influences of erosive rainfall on the erosions on 20° slopes of artificial grassland and natural grassland.[Results] In the study area
the erosive rainfall mainly occurs from May to September
and is greater in July and August
and correspondingly the amount of erosion caused by it is more than 70% of the annual erosion. Erosions observed on the two different types of grassland were both finely correlated with PI10. The erosive rainfall mainly refers to moderate rain and heavy rain
the amount of erosion caused by the two intensity rainfalls accounts for about 86% of the annual erosion. The erosion amounts observed in artificial and natural grassland caused by moderate & high intensity rainfalls were 90.8% and 91.2% of total erosion amount
respectively. The amount of soil erosion can well expressed by power function with PI10
PI30 as independent variables. Rainfall with 300 MJ·mm/(hm2·h) or greater erosivity caused the largest proportional soil erosion
for artificial and natural grasslands
the proportion was 32.3% and 33.4%
respectively; rainfall with erosivity of 50~100 MJ·mm/(hm2·h) was most frequent
the erosion amount proportions were 26.0% and 29.1% of the total observed erosions
respectively.[Conclusion] The lower amount criteria of erosive rainfall for artificial grassland(coverage of 75%~82%) and natural grassland(coverage of more than 80%) were 11.3 mm and 11.9 mm
respectively; and the maximum I10 were 10.4 mm/h and 11.7 mm/h
respectively. The natural grassland has better effect of soil and water conservation than artificial grassland has.
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