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Descriptor English: Soil Erosion
Descriptor Spanish: Erosión del Suelo
Descriptor erosión del suelo
Scope note: 1. Desplazamiento de cantidades importantes de SUELO de un área por el viento o la escorrentía. 2 Degradación del suelo a consecuencia del arrastre por el viento y el agua de la tierra necesaria para mantener los bosques, la producción de alimentos y la agricultura. Con frecuencia la causa es una mala utilización del suelo. (Traducción libre del original: Material V-Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990).
Descriptor Portuguese: Erosão do Solo
Descriptor French: Érosion du sol
Entry term(s): Erosion, Soil
Tree number(s): G01.311.865
G16.500.870
SP4.606.573.348.416
SP8.190.270.371.388.325
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000085902
Scope note: The displacement of significant quantities of SOIL from an area by wind or rainwater runoff.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
HI history
PC prevention & control
SN statistics & numerical data
Public MeSH Note: 2021
History Note: 2021
Related: Landslides MeSH
DeCS ID: 59563
Unique ID: D000085902
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Date Established: 2021/01/01
Date of Entry: 2020/07/07
Revision Date: 2020/06/09
Soil Erosion - Preferred
Concept UI M000731545
Scope note The displacement of significant quantities of SOIL from an area by wind or rainwater runoff.
Scope note The displacement of significant quantities of SOIL from an area by wind or rainwater runoff.
Preferred term Soil Erosion
Entry term(s) Erosion, Soil



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