Bringing ancient loess critical zones into a new era of sustainable development goals

X Jia, P Zhu, X Wei, Y Zhu, M Huang, W Hu… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) have been established initially in natural
environments to monitor CZ processes. A new generation of CZOs has been extended to …

Assessment and monitoring of accelerated water erosion of cultivated land–when will reality be acknowledged?

R Evans - Soil use and management, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Soil erosion is a key issue in Europe, and strategies to protect soil need to be developed.
Hence, eroding soils or those at risk of erosion need to be identified. Much model‐derived …

Vis-NIR spectroscopic assessment of soil aggregate stability and aggregate size distribution in the Belgian Loam Belt

P Shi, F Castaldi, B van Wesemael, K Van Oost - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil aggregate stability (AS) reflects a soil's resistance to external erosive forces and is an
indicator that varies with changing elementary soil properties across space and time …

From shifting cultivation to teak plantation: effect on overland flow and sediment yield in a montane tropical catchment

O Ribolzi, O Evrard, S Huon, A De Rouw, N Silvera… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Soil erosion supplies large quantities of sediments to rivers of Southeastern Asia. It reduces
soil fertility of agro-ecosystems located on hillslopes, and it degrades, downstream, water …

Large-scale, high-resolution mapping of soil aggregate stability in croplands using APEX hyperspectral imagery

P Shi, F Castaldi, B van Wesemael, K Van Oost - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Investigations into the spatial dynamics of soil aggregate stability (AS) are urgently needed
to better target areas that have undergone soil degradation. However, due to the lack of …

Modelling the impact of land use change and rainfall seasonality on sediment export from an agricultural catchment of the northwestern European loess belt

O Evrard, G Nord, O Cerdan, V Souchère… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil erosion leads to important environmental problems (eg muddy floods, reservoir
sedimentation) in cultivated areas of the European loess belt. This study aimed to determine …

Erosion and sediment budget across scale: A case study in a catchment of the European loess belt

M Delmas, LT Pak, O Cerdan, V Souchère… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
In many cultivated areas of the loess belt in Northern Europe, loamy soils are particularly
sensitive to runoff and erosion. Those processes may not be continuous within a catchment …

Artificial surfaces characteristics and sediment connectivity explain muddy flood hazard in Wallonia

B De Walque, A Degré, A Maugnard, CL Bielders - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, the off-site damages caused by muddy floods have been of growing
concern throughout much of Western Europe, and particularly in Wallonia (Belgium). A …

Depth distribution of cesium-137 in paddy fields across the Fukushima pollution plume in 2013

H Lepage, O Evrard, Y Onda, I Lefèvre… - Journal of environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Large quantities of radiocesium were deposited across a 3000 km 2 area northwest of the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after the March 2011 accident. Although many …

Surface runoff of pesticides from a clay loam field in Sweden

M Larsbo, M Sandin, N Jarvis, A Etana… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pesticides stored at or close to the soil surface after field application can be mobilized and
transported off the field when surface runoff occurs. The objective of our study was to …