Direct and indirect method for determination of soil loss by erosive processes in agricultural properties located in the cities of Getulina and Vera Cruz – SP

• Grant number: 14/02230-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: João Osvaldo Rodrigues Nunes
• Grantee: Jessica de Sousa Baldassarini
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/05751-0 - Analyzing the different quantitative evaluation direct and parametric methods to estimate the water erosion (USLE and the plots of field erosion) to determinate the soil loss in rural properties from Getulina and Vera Cruz counties, São Paulo state,Brazil, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The recovery of degraded areas by erosion represents a major challenge in the pursuit of conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, as much because the complexity factors that involves the triggering of an erosive process, consisted of natural and socio-economic dynamics that have settled in conflicting way, as the result of this process ranging from low agricultural productivity, pollution and siltation of waterways to the physical, chemical and biological soils degradation. Considering the complexity factors that involved the erosion initiation, this project aims to determine soil loss through Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and the establishment of experimental plots in the field, with the possibility of comparing the results presented by equations with the experiments continuously observed in the areas. Measurements of soil loss also will be used in the development of intervention actions in favor of the erosion recovery. The study will take place in two farms that have natural and distinct use and occupancy characteristics giving them particular spatial complexities, the property located in Vera Cruz - SP has coffe production while the Getulina's - SP is designed to livestock. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BALDASSARINI, Jessica de Sousa. Contribution to the study of soil loss dynamics through direct and indirect estimation techniques in rural properties of Getulina and Vera Cruz - SP. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente Presidente Prudente.