Applying RUSLE 2.0 on burned-forest lands: an appraisal.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, January, 2004 by Gonzalez-Bonorino, G.; Osterkamp, W.R.
Forestlands disturbed by wildfire commonly constitute major and long-lasting sources of sediment that degrade water quality and cause siltation. Postfire restoration of the resistance to erosion of the forest soil is largely controlled by the rate of regrowth of vegetation and may take several years to return to prefire levels, particularly in areas of high-severity burns in semiarid climate. Time-instantaneous prediction techniques such as the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) fail to describe the long-term effect. The latest version of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE version 2.0) includes a time-varying option that can model seasonal or pluri-year variations in biomass and other factors; also, it has revised governing equations and an updated database. RUSLE...
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