Barrier islands characterize up to an eighth of the global coastlines. They buffer the mainland coastal areas from storm surge and wave energy from the open ocean. Changes in their shape or disappearance due to erosion may lead to an increased impact of sea level extremes on the mainland. A barrier island threatened by erosion is Egmont Key which is located in the mouth of the Tampa Bay estuary...

Vegetation deterioration is a main cause of erosion and land degradation. Therefore, land cover reclamation in the effected areas will affect erosion trend. In reclamation projects, the investigation of relationship between the planted species and soils is highly recommended. Atriplex species can sequester carbon into soil, and have an ability to conserve soil and prevent soil erosion,...

Vegetation deterioration is a main cause of erosion and land degradation. Therefore, land cover reclamation in the effected areas will affect erosion trend. In reclamation projects, the investigation of relationship between the planted species and soils is highly recommended. Atriplex species can sequester carbon into soil, and have an ability to conserve soil and prevent soil erosion,...

One of the reasons reduction agricultural land is degradation soil processes. The main negative processes occurring in soils and leading to their are erosion (water wind), humus content soil. A significant spread developing due action natural anthropogenic factors leads a critical decrease fertility. By washing away upper fertile layer formation large gullies improper tillage, formed. In order ...

A diagonal is said to be complete if every element appears in it exactly once. For n = 2m even, we introduce the concept of a crisscross Latin square which is something in between a diagonal Latin square and a Knut Vik design. A crisscross Latin square is a Latin square such that all the jth right diagonals for even j and all the jth left diagonals for odd j are complete. We show that a necessa...

Risk assessment provides the possibility of planning and management to prevent and reduce the risk of desertification. The present study is aimed to assess the hazard and risk of desertification and to develop management programs in the semi-arid western regions of Golestan Province in Iran. Desertification rate was obtained using the Iranian model of desertification potential assessment. Since...

IVind ttiimel tests on silty textured loessial soils throtigbout the Cohimhia Plateau of eastern Wa.shiitg{on slate and northern central Oregon were used ro define soil erndibiltiy for wind erosion predictions. Aggregate and primary particle size distributions were determined hy common techniques and correlated wiih the wind tunnel erosion values. Dry aerodynamic particle sizing by a laser meth...