Changing climate and land use of 21st century influences soil erosion in India

Abstract The spatial extent and distribution of soil erosion due to land cover and climate change is the central theme of our research. We have provide first spatial distribution wise soil erosion map at small scale, considering empirical observations and challenging the previous work in terms of average annual soil erosion in the entire country. The map reveals that the importance of climate and land cover change has been played an important role in controlling fertile soil erosion at finer scale, as well as the overwhelming effect of highly dense population induced activities across the country. Based on the projected soil loss estimation, study have estimated that nearly 9.88% land surface eroded top soil at 80 Mg ha-1 y-1, and the areas of land surface become 13.14% in 2100 year unless human activities and climate change controlled.