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Soil Erosion Risk Modelling

Approaches to assess soil erosion risk used in the investigation of the Gina River catchment

Approaches to assess soil erosion risk used in the investigation of the Gina River catchment
Image Credit: after Beck et al. 2004

Today, a number of quantitative models to assess soil erosion risks and factors influencing soil erosion risk is available. However, these models are developed for the temperate zones in Northern America and Europe and would need adaptation to the conditions of the subtropical Gina River catchment. Additionally, most of the modelling approaches concentrate on a limited number of factors. Thus, these can always reflect only a partial aspect of reality.

As there is no soil erosion risk modelling approach for tropical regions available at the present two approaches to estimate soil erosion risk are developed for the Gina River catchment (see figure):

Both are presented in the following.