impact of natural rainfall on soil,water and nutrients conservation by vegetational cover ata Neglected Wetland Ecotone of river Gomati

The riparian wetlands are narrow typical ecotone in between river water and upland terrestrial systems. They are under the constant flux of seasonally changing hydroperiod and anthropogenic activities. In view of this, the present paper summarizes our findings under a natural rainfall event (in 13 mm, 45 minutes and 140slope) in vegetated and bare conditions of a neglected wetland ecotone of R. Gomati in Jaunpur (U.P.) during the rainy season. The conservation values (Cv%) varied from 67.26 to 94.35 %. In contrast, the annual loss of nutrients (nitrogen-N and phosphorus-P) in total rainfall (882mm) during the study period (April, 2012 to March, 2013) revealed that the totalNand Pin the respective vegetated plot was less than (N=0.0065 and P=0.0012 t Ha-1 yr-1 ) compared to bare plot (N=0.0844 and P=0.0094 t ha-1 yr-1 ).