Abordagem física do WEPP na erosão em solos em ambiente semiárido

Abstract

Soil erosion is an irreversible phenomenon that causes soil degradation and deterioration of water quality, therefore, models such as water erosion prediction project (WEPP) physical base can be increasingly used to assess erosion rill in semiarid environment. The objective was to quantify the rill erosion with relationships the WEPP and evaluate the hydraulic conditions of runoff under conditions of rill preformed. The experiment was conducted in the exu watershed in Serra Talhada, semiarid region of Pernambuco where was prepared 16 rill preformed who underwent different flow levels: 5.87 L min-1, 12.10 L min-1, 20.33 L min-1 and 27.57 L min-1 in Entisol fluvent. With the performance of the concentration of runoff in rill experimental produced flow regimes slow turbulent in the largest flows applied characterizing the characterizing the occurrence of erosion in rill. The erodibility values in rill (Kr)was 0.0011 kgN-1s-1 and critical shear corresponds to 1.91 Pa. The values of soil losses to erosion rill were considered high for Entisol fluvent behaving smaller particle size composition with a higher percentage of sand.