土壤风蚀是北方干旱和半干旱地区土地沙化和沙尘暴灾害的首要环节和主要动力过程之一.选取影响内蒙古自治区土壤风蚀演化的相关指标,运用GIS技术提取各指标数据,构建径向基函数神经网络(Radial Basis Function Network,RBFN);根据不同风蚀危险程度标准,选取12个市、县(旗)相关数据进行训练,确定网络模型参数,进而对内蒙古自治区88个市、县(旗)的土壤风蚀危险度进行了评价.结果表明:内蒙古自治区西部为土壤风蚀发生的极强危险区,西北为强危险区,中部为中度危险区,而东部为轻度危险区;利用其他研究对该评价结论进行对比验证,结果较为理想.
Wind erosion is one of the major factors of land degradation in the typical steppe region, northern Mongolian Plateau. Using 137Cs tracing technique, we estimated the wind erosion rates of different pastures and abandoned farmland at Bayannur and Karakorum in Mongolia. The pastures and cutting grassland at Bayannur were slightly eroded by wind, with the rates of 64.58-169.07 t·km?2·a?1. The abandoned farmland in Karakorum, however, was strongly eroded by wind, with annual surface soil loss of 4.05 mm·a?1, and wind erosion rates up to 6723.06 t·km?2·a?1. The total loss of surface soil due to wind erosion has been 17.4 cm since the cultivation of the steppe land in the 1960s. The wind ero- sion rate at the abandoned farmland was much higher than that at the typical steppe sites, showing that the cultivation led to serious wind erosion in the typical steppe region, northern Mongolian Plateau. By contrast, traditional livestock grazing resulted in less disturbance to the surface soil, and did not in- duce to devastating wind erosion, which plays an important role in maintaining the stability of the steppe ecosystem in the northern Mongolian Plateau.
