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There are approximately 30 million hectares of cultivated land in the three Prairie Provinces of Canada: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Prairie soils are productive but subject to degradation by wind and water erosion, salinisation, and organic matter decline (Coote, 1984; PFRA, 1990). Climatic factors, soil properties, and either direct (e.g. management) or indirect (e.g. farm policy) human activities interact and dictate, in the end, the extent of degradation.
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Izaurralde, R.C. et al. (1997). Application of EPIC within an integrated modelling system to evaluate soil erosion in the Canadian Prairies. In: Rosen, D., Tel-Or, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y. (eds) Modern Agriculture and the Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5418-5_21
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