Main affecting factors of soil wind erosion under different land use patterns—A case study in Wuchuan County,Inner Mongolia

Abstract

Abstract: Field investigation,laboratory analysis and wind tunnel simulation showed that in Wuchuan County of Inner Mongolia,low precipitation,frequent and high wind velocity,coarse soil texture,and thawing and freezing were the main causes of soil wind erosion happened very easily in spring.In late winter and early spring,the vegetation coverage was in order of shrub-land>natural grassland>rainfed farmland,and thus,increasing the surface cover of rainfed farmland should be an urgent need to control the wind erosion in Wuchuan County.The soil wind erosion rate decreased exponentially with increasing soil moisture content,and 6% soil moisture content was a turning point from severe to light.The topsoil moisture content under different land use patterns was in order of natural grassland> rainfed farmland >shrub-land.With increasing wind velocity,soil wind erosion rate increased by power function,and 18 m穝^-1 wind velocity was a switching point to aggravate the wind erosion.

Key words: Agro-pasture ecotone, Soil wind erosion, Vegetation cover, Soil moisture content

CLC Number:

S157.1

HE Wenqing, ZHAO Caixia, GAO Wangsheng, CHEN Yuanquan, QIN Hongling, FAN Xiurong . Main affecting factors of soil wind erosion under different land use patterns—A case study in Wuchuan County,Inner Mongolia[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2005, 16(11): 2092-2096.

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