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Vegetation-Erosion Dynamics

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In a broad sense, all rivers develop from rills and gullies in the process of erosion. Erosion is classified according to agents causing erosion into water erosion, wind erosion, gravity erosion, glacier erosion and cultural erosion. Water erosion occurs in different forms: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, gully erosion and channel erosion. Grain erosion is defined as the phenomenon of breaking down of bare rocks under the action of sun exposure and temperature changes, detachment of grains by wind, flow of grains down the slope under the action of gravity, and accumulation of eroded material at the toe of the mountain forming a deposit fan. Vegetation is the most important factor affecting the erosion process and development of rills. Vegetation, fluvial-geomorphic processes and landforms are inextricably interconnected parts of the landscape. Vegetation-erosion dynamics studies the laws of evolution of watershed vegetation under the action of various ecological stresses. Vegetation and erosion are a pair of competing and mutually interacting aspects of a watershed. For a watershed, vegetation and erosion may reach an equilibrium state if the circumstances remain unchanged for a long period of time. However, the equilibrium may not be stable. Ecological stresses, especially human activities, may disturb the balance and initiate a new cycle of dynamic processes. Studies considering both geomorphology and vegetation in the watershed are uncommon yet may provide important information regarding geomorphological and ecological processes.

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Wang, ZY., Lee, J.H.W., Melching, C.S. (2015). Vegetation-Erosion Dynamics. In: River Dynamics and Integrated River Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25652-3_3

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