| Soil erosion is one of most serious environmental and production problems on the Loess Plateau in China. The objectives of this study were to quantify the influence of forest vegetation on soil erosion on slope areas in the Loess Plateau. This was made by using the subfactor method to calculate the vegetation cover management factor (C) of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). Proper local subfactor parameter values were obtained to ofer a theoretical basis and practical guidance for studying the relationship between vegetation and soil erosion on the Loess Plateau. Tree subfactors including prior land use (PLU), canopy cover (CC), surface cover (SC), surface Roughness (SR), soil moisture (SM), and covermanagement factor (C) were observed at three plant... |
