Effects of gravel mulch technology on soil erosion resistance and plant growth of river flinty slope.

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Effects of gravel mulch technology on soil erosion resistance and plant growth of river flinty slope.

ZHU Wei^1,2;XIE San-tao^2,3; RUAN Ai-dong¹; BIAN Xun-wen²

¹State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;²College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;³Anhui Survey Design Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower, Hefei 230022, China

Received:2007-04-30 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-03-21 Published:2008-03-21

Abstract

Abstract: Aiming at the technical difficulties such as the stability and water balance in the ecological rehabilitation of river flinty slope, a gravel mulch technology was proposed, with the effects of different gravel mulch treatments on the soil anti-erosion capacity, soil water retention property, and plant growth investigated by anti-erosion and pot experiments. The results showed that mulching with the gravels 1.5-2 cm in size could obviously enhance the soil anti-erosion capacity, soil water retention property and plant biomass, but no obvious differences were observed between the mulch thickness of 5 cm and 8 cm. It was indicated that mulching with the gravels 1.5-2 cm in size and 5 cm in thickness was an effective and economical technology for the ecological rehabilitation of river flinty slope.

Key words: remote sensing ecological index, Poyang Lake area, spatial variation, influencing factor, ecological environment quality

ZHU Wei^1,2;XIE San-tao^2,3; RUAN Ai-dong¹; BIAN Xun-wen² . Effects of gravel mulch technology on soil erosion resistance and plant growth of river flinty slope. [J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology.

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