An index guiding temporal planting policies for wind erosion reduction

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 233-244

  Zhao, Cai Xia ^a   Zheng, Da Wei ^a   Stigter, C J ^b   He, Wen Qing ^a   Tuo, De Bao ^c   Zhao, Pei Yi ^c  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Crop cover; Erosion index; Forest cover; Pasture cover; Shrub cover; Wind climate erosive factor

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; ARABLE LAND; CROPPING PRACTICE; EROSION RATE; GRASS; SEASONALITY; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

POACEAE;

EID: 33745727921     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: 15324990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15324980600705735     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Al-amin, Naval K. Nasr, K. Stigter, M. A. M. Elagab, and M. B. Hussein. 2005. Combating desert encroachment by guiding people, wind and sand. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (Japan) 60:349-352.
2. Al-amin, N. K. Nasr, C. J. Stigter, and A. E. Mohammed. 2006. Establishment of trees for sand settlement in a completely desertified environment. Resubmitted to Arid Land Research and Management.
3. Allen, R. R. and C. R. Fenster. 1986. Stubble-mulch equipment for soil and water conservation in the Great Plains. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 41:11-16.
4. Bilbro, J. D. 1987. Crossplanting winter wheat reduces potential wind erosion of soil in semi-arid regions. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 42:267-269.
5. Brazel, A. J. and W. G. Nickling. 1987. Dust storms and their relation to moisture in the Sonoran-Mojave desert region of the South-Western United States. Journal of Environmental Managament 24:279-291.
6. Canfield, R. 1941. Application of the line interception method in sampling range vegetation. Forestry 39:388-394.
7. Chen, T. and W.-X. Cheng. 1980. Method of measuring and calculation of evaporation and evaporation power in farmland. Geography Conglomerate, Number 12. Beijing Science Press (in Chinese Beijing).
8. Chepil, W. S., F. H. Siddoway, and D. V. Armbrust. 1962. Climatic factor estimating wind erodibility in fields. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 17:162-165.
9. Dong, Y. and G. Kang. 1994. Study on the wind erosion climatic erosivity in arid and semi-arid areas in china. Journal of Soil and Water Conversation 8(3):1-7.
10. Dong, Z., W. Cheng, G. Dong, G. Cheng, Z. Li, and Z. Yang. 1996. Influences of vegetation cover on the wind erosion of sandy soil. Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae 16(4):437-443 (in Chinese).
11. Fryrear, D. W. 1985. Soil cover and wind erosion. Transactions of the ASAE 28:781-784.
12. Higgitt, D. 1993. Soil erosion and soil problems. Progress in Physical Geography 17:461-472.
13. Lal, R. 1987. Tropical ecology and physical edaphology. Wiley and Sons, New York.
14. Li, B., Z. Ren, and P. Shi. 1993. Studying on dynamic inspection in grassland and husbandry of North China. China Agriculture Press, Beijing, pp. 129-190 (in Chinese).
15. Liu, J. 2002. Shifting sand stabilization in the desert-pasture transition zone - A case study in Shapotou railway protection system. Journal of Desert Research 22:495-498.
16. Lyles, L. 1983. Erosivity wind energy distributions and climatic factors for the west. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 38:106-109.
17. Maki, T. 2004. Greening of deserts. Book of photographs designed by Hurry, printed in Japan. Texts in Japanese. No publisher indicated in English.
18. Muller-Dombois, D. and H. Ellenberg. 1974. Aims and methods of vegetation ecology. Wiley and Sons, New York.
19. Onyewotu, L. O. Z., C. J. Stigter, Y. M. Abdullahi, J. A. Ariyo, E. O. Oladipo, and J. J. Owonubi. 2003. Reclamation of desertified farmlands and consequences for its farmers in semi-arid northern Nigeria: A case study of Yambawa rehabilitation scheme. Arid Land Research and Management 17:85-101.
20. Pan X., W. Deng, D. Zhang, F. Li, and Y. Wang. 2003. Sustainable agriculture in the semi-arid agro-pastoral interweaving belt of Northern China: A case study of west Jilin province. Outlook on Agriculture 32:165-172.
21. Skidmore, E. L. 1986. Wind erosion climatic erosivity. Climatic Change 9:195-208.
22. Sonntag, B. and H. Sun. 2002. Agriculture Development and Environment in Critical Areas of China. Science Press, Beijing.
23. Sterk, G. 2000. Flattened residue effects on wind speed and sediment transport. Soil Science Society of America Journal 64:852-858.
24. Sterk, G. and W. P. Spaan. 1997. Wind erosion control with crop residues in the Sahel. Soil Science Society of America Journal 61:911-917.
25. Stigter, C. J., A. E. Mohammed, N. K. Nasr Al-amin, L. O. Z. Onyewotu, S. B. B. Oteng'i, and R. M. R. Kainkwa. 2002. Agroforestry solutions to some African wind problems. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 90:1101-1114.
26. Stigter, C. J., H. P. Das, and V. R. K. Murthy. 2003. Beyond climate forecasting of flood disasters. Lecture on the opening day of a Flood Risk Management Course (FRM-5), Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (Bangkok) and China Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction (Beijing), September 15, Beijing, available from ADPC on CD-Rom.
27. Stigter, C. J., J. M. Kinama, Y. Zhang, K. O. Oluwasemire, D. Zheng, N. K. Al-Amin, and A. E. Abdalla. 2005a. Agrometeorological services and information for decision making: Some examples from Africa and China. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (Japan) 60:327-330.
28. Stigter, C. J., S. B. B. Oteng'i, K. O. Oluwasemire. N. K. Nasr Al-amin, J. M. Kinama, and L. O. Z. Onyewotu. 2005b. Recent answers to farmland degradation illustrated by case studies from African farming systems. Annals of Arid Zone, in print.
29. Wasson, R. J. and P. M. Nanninga. 1986. Estimating wind transported sand on vegetated surface. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 11(4):505.
30. Woodruf, N. P. and D. V. Armbrust. 1968. A monthly climatic factor for the wind erision equation. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 23:103-104.
31. Wolfe, S. A. and W. G. Nickling. 1993. The protective role of sparse vegetation in wind erosion. Progress in Physical Geography 17:50-68.
32. Yang, Farglin and K.-M. Lau. 2004. Trends and variability of China precipitation in spring and summer: linkage to sea-surface temperatures. International Journal of Climatology 24:1625-1644.
33. Xie, B., X.-P. Deng, and X. Pan. 2003. Critical review of agricultural science in China. Outlook on Agriculture 32:149-154.
34. Zheng, D. and D. Tuo. 2002. Studies on an agricultural development model and the key techniques preventing the ecotone from desertification, pp. 1974-1980, in D. Li, ed., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Food, Energy and Industry. CAS, Beijing.
35. Zheng, D., J. Zhao, D. Tuo, and K. Stigter. 2005. Reversing land degradation from wind erosion in Inner Mongolia: The choice between grass and bush restoration or conservation tillage of contour strip plantings depends on hill slopes and rainfall. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (Japan) 60:337-341.
36. Zobeck, T. M., G. Sterk, R. Funk, J. L. Rajot, J. E. Stout, and R. S. Van Pelt. 2003. Measurement and data analyisis methods for field-scale wind erosion studies and model validation. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 28:1163-1188.