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… hundreds of kilometres inland, often lead to widespread erosion and thereby large increases in sediment load in … due to a combination of lack of sediment input, enhanced erosion and severe reduction in nutrient load. Such problems …

… is disappearing at an alarming pace, alongside genetic erosion. Safeguarding traditional knowledge can involve two … grown in certain regions, threatened by genetic erosion and varieties with no intrinsic value for commercial … Global Seed Vault. Norway has also suffered crop genetic erosion and substantial efforts are being made to save and …

… of services. These include shelter and the reduction of erosion, pollination, adaptation to climate change, corridors … food sources, and stabilize soil to prevent or reduce erosion; - it may contribute to landscape aesthetics, … of fauna and flora species and for human security: soil erosion, catchments of underground water areas protection, …

… such as maintenance of water quality, reduction of erosion, and stability of hydrologic cycles. 1 Increase … + + + + + + + + 3 Agriculture and timber production • Soil erosion by wind and water • Windbreaks for crops, pasture and … their important role in conserving headwaters, controlling erosion and functioning as buffer areas (Felfili 1997). …

… over water and land are also increasing, due to increased erosion and degradation and limited access to water, land, … on the most difficult terrain, helping to combat erosion and provide nutrients to soil. Europe: the successful … most widespread use of mountain terrain, often followed by erosion and enhanced risk for valley and foreland …

… over the waste can reduce exposures via wind-born dusts, erosion of the contaminated deposit by surface run off, and … • Vegetative cover (protection of the covering soil from erosion, maximization of the evapotranspiration rate and … so as to avoid areas prone to flooding or susceptible to erosion. At a minimum, 100 years of return time of frequency, …

… and to use in coastal management practices, such as erosion control and dune stabilisation. Although the original … south-eastern China, after being introduced in 1979 for erosion control. It rapidly invades intertidal mudflats and …

… US$ 300 million a year, forest catchment protection and erosion control services contribute more than US$ 100 million … catchment deforestation to a particular rate of soil erosion, consequent siltation of a hydropower dam and reduced … and profitability of the dam. This involved examining erosion and soil loss rates under different land use …

… and improvement of the soil, to, inter alia, combat its erosion and misuse as well as the deterioration of its … ensure long-term pro- ductivity of the land, ii) control erosion caused by land misuse and mismanagement which may … works, mining and the disposal of wastes, do not result in erosion, pollution, or any other form of land degradation; d) …

… reasons : significant environmental deterioration (e.g., erosion following the cutting of mangroves) worsening … conserved at regional scale .... - - - - - - - - - - Erosion because of the opening of a new channel The local … of our eyes. Such observations generally occur when the “erosion” of biodiversity and ecological services has already …