Establishing soil loss tolerance: an overview

Submitted: 16 April 2016
Accepted: 21 June 2016
Published: 29 September 2016
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Soil loss tolerance is a criterion for establishing if a soil is potentially subjected to erosion risk, productivity loss and if a river presents downstream over-sedimentation or other off-site effects are present at basin scale. At first this paper reviews the concept of tolerable soil loss and summarises the available definitions and the knowledge on the recommended values and evaluating criteria. Then a threshold soil loss value, at the annual temporal scale, established for limiting riling was used for defining the classical soil loss tolerance. Finally, some research needs on tolerable soil loss are listed.

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Di Stefano, C. and Ferro, V. (2016) “Establishing soil loss tolerance: an overview”, Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 47(3), pp. 127–133. doi: 10.4081/jae.2016.560.