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A 30-YEAR APPRAISAL OF SOIL-GULLY EROSION AS A DRIVER OF PLANTS EXTINCTION DUE TO CHANGED SOIL-LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA
(STEF92 Technology, 2017-06-20, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Onyedikachi Joshua Okeke, Ezekiel Eromosei, Omogbai Audu Sefiya, Adu Simon)
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Soil erosion is one of the crucial forms of land degradation; a menace caused by soil degradation and prevailing lithological feature in southern Nigeria. Several hectares of land area and properties worth about 2.5 million USD are lost annually due to soil erosion. Besides arable lands, the vegetation which serves as habitat to several species is rapidly disappearing leading to the extinction of the native plant species. The objective of the study was to evaluate the impacts of soil-gully erosion from 1986-2016 b...
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