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Journal of Forestry Research (2014) 25(1): 193−200 DOI 10.1007/s11676-014-0445-2 ORIGINAL PAPER Assessment of soil erodibility and aggregate stability for different parts of a forest road Aidin Parsakhoo • Majid Lotfalian • Ataollah Kavian Seyed Ataollah Hosseini Received: 2012-06-13; Accepted: 2012-08-02 © Northeast Forestry University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract: We measured erodibility and mean weight diameter (MWD) of soil aggregates in different parts of a forest road. Samples of topsoil were collected from cutslope, fillslope, road surface and forest ground to Introduction assess the texture, bulk density, moisture, CaCO3 and organic matter. Soil aggregate stability was determined by wet sieving. Soil erodibility on the Mountain roads are the most prodigious source of sediment be- road surface was 2.3 and 1.3 times higher than on the fillslope and cutslope, cause of low stability of road aggregates and high erodibility in respectively. The forest soil had the lowest erodibility. Aggregate stability some part of its prisms (Sidle et al. 2011). Aggregate stability of a of cutslope and road surface were low and very low, respectively. There soil is the resistance of soil structure against mechanical or was a significant negative relationship between cutslope erodibility with physical-chemical destructive forces. Determining aggregate CaCO3 and sand content. Cutslope erodibility increased with increasing stability will give information on the sensitivity of soils to water silt, clay and moisture content. On fillslopes, MWD increased with in- and wind erosion, which might be prevented by revegetation creasing rock fragment cover, plant cover, litter cover, organic matter and (Mandy et al. 2009). Revegetation