TY - JOUR N2 - The study on water erosion in the catchment basin of the Jeleni Brook was carried out in the years 1995–1999. The catchment of the Jeleni Brook has complex relief, receives frequent pre-cipitations and thus is more threatened by water erosion. Soil cultivation and water from quickly melting snow can also be the factors affecting soil erosion. Waters from the melting snow produce rills of the following dimensions (mean values): width from 11.5 to 13.6 cm, depth – from 6.4 to 7.1 cm and length – from 39 to 112 m. The mean values of soil losses vary from 0.5 to 2.02 t·ha–1. Erosion caused by intensive storm precipitation occurs less frequently but makes much higher soil losses. One of the registered incidents shows that 51.6 t·ha–1 (4.5 mm of soil layer) can be washed out from the area of 0.66 ha. Combined effect of outwashing and ploughing in lower parts of slopes created new forms of relief such as agricultural terraces (escarps). Agricultural terraces assume the shape of scarps up to 2 m high and of different length (e.g. 150 m) along with the land use border-lines between e.g. forest and field or field and grassland. Agriculturally used soils within this catchment need protection based mainly on agrotechnical measures or on alteration of land use. Some areas should be afforested. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/116975/PDF-MASTER/%5B20834535%20-%20Journal%20of%20Water%20and%20Land%20Development%5D%20Water%20erosion%20in%20the%20catchment%20basin%20of%20the%20Jeleni%20Brook.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/116975 PY - 2006 IS - No 10 EP - 131 KW - erosion factors KW - irrigation KW - erosion sediments KW - soil losses KW - tillage erosion KW - water erosion A1 - Koćmit, Adam A1 - Podlasiński, Marek A1 - Roy, Małgorzata A1 - Tomaszewicz, Tomasz A1 - Chudecka, Justyna PB - Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Technology and Life Sciences - National Research Institute DA - 2006 T1 - Water erosion in the catchment basin of the Jeleni Brook SP - 121 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116975 T2 - Journal of Water and Land Development ER -