Soil erosion also poses a threat to the environment. According to the FAO, the world’s cultivated soils – meaning soils that have been rearranged – have lost between 25 and 75 percent of ...

Because soil formation proceeds at about the same rate as natural erosion, Wilkinson's results mean that humans are stripping soil from the surface of the Earth far faster than nature can replace it.

Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order ... and/or plant roots and fungal hyphae (see definition below). biogeochemical cycles: the pathways for movement and transformations ...