The Importance of Environmental Factors for the Development of Water Erosion of Soil in Agricultural Land: The Southern Part of Hronská Pahorkatina Hill Land, Slovakia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Environmental Factors Supporting the Development of Erosion
1.1.1. Primary Factors
1.1.2. Secondary Factors
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Evaluation of Erosion Factors
2.2.1. Areas Threatened by Water Erosion
2.2.2. Selected Properties of the Relief
2.2.3. Types of Land Use Change
2.2.4. Significance of the Erosion Factors
3. Results
3.1. Identification of the Spatial Distribution of Water Erosion
3.2. Evaluation of Factors
3.2.1. Slope
3.2.2. Aspect
3.2.3. Relief Shapes
3.2.4. Slope Length
3.2.5. LS Factor
3.2.6. Types of Land Use Changes
3.3. Significance of Evaluated Erosion Factors in the Development of Water Erosion
3.4. Estimation of the Significance of the Evaluated Factors
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Petlušová, V.; Petluš, P.; Ševčík, M.; Hreško, J. The Importance of Environmental Factors for the Development of Water Erosion of Soil in Agricultural Land: The Southern Part of Hronská Pahorkatina Hill Land, Slovakia. Agronomy 2021, 11, 1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11061234
Petlušová V, Petluš P, Ševčík M, Hreško J. The Importance of Environmental Factors for the Development of Water Erosion of Soil in Agricultural Land: The Southern Part of Hronská Pahorkatina Hill Land, Slovakia. Agronomy. 2021; 11(6):1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11061234
Chicago/Turabian StylePetlušová, Viera, Peter Petluš, Michal Ševčík, and Juraj Hreško. 2021. "The Importance of Environmental Factors for the Development of Water Erosion of Soil in Agricultural Land: The Southern Part of Hronská Pahorkatina Hill Land, Slovakia" Agronomy 11, no. 6: 1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11061234