The only places where soils are conserved or increased are:
Essential soil building needs are:
If you want truly permanent, regenerative systems, make sure these elements are there! In the next section of the course, we’ll talk about a number of ways you can build beautiful, nutrient rich, permanent soil in any ecosystem.

Further Study
Robert Kourik has created a wonderful body of detailed work on plants, roots, irrigation and other plant related topics. Here’s an article on plant roots - important to understand since this is why you are building soil.
https://joegardener.com/podcast/roots-demystified/