Impact of thinning and contour-felled logs on overland flow, soil erosion, and litter erosion in a monoculture Japanese cypress forest plantation

• Main Authors: Moein Farahnak, Takanori Sato, Nobuaki Tanaka, Anand Nainar, Ibtisam Mohd Ghaus, Koichiro Kuraji
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2024
• Subjects: SD1-669.5 Forestry; SD390-390.43 Forest soils
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42194/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42194/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42194/; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16202874

This study investigated the impact of thinning and felled logs (random- and contour-felled logs) on overland flow, soil erosion, and litter erosion in a Japanese cypress forest plantation (2400 tree ha−1) with low ground cover, from 2018 to 2023 in central Japan. Monthly measurements of overland flo...