Acceleration of soil erosion by different land uses in arid lands above¹⁰be natural background rates: Case study in the sonoran desert, usa

Agriculture & Biology

• sediment yield 100%
• Sonoran Desert 80%
• soil erosion 68%
• arid lands 61%
• land use 55%
• case studies 48%
• wildfires 29%
• arid zones 23%
• grazing 18%
• land degradation 16%
• soil degradation 14%
• land use change 13%
• vegetation 8%
• soil 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• arid land 74%
• sediment yield 63%
• soil erosion 52%
• desert 47%
• land use 38%
• denudation 25%
• arid region 23%
• wildfire 23%
• grazing 20%
• rate 18%
• catchment 17%
• erosion 15%
• soil degradation 13%
• land degradation 13%
• sustainable management 12%
• erosion rate 11%
• sealing 11%
• land use change 10%
• watershed 8%
• vegetation 6%
• need 6%
• soil 4%