Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art

M Vanmaercke, P Panagos, T Vanwalleghem… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil erosion is generally recognized as the dominant process of land degradation. The
formation and expansion of gullies is often a highly significant process of soil erosion …

Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

T Heckmann, M Cavalli, O Cerdan, S Foerster… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Indices of connectivity are critical means for moving from qualitative to (semi-) quantitative
evaluations of material (eg, water, sediment and nutrients) transfer across the building …

Soil erosion in the Anthropocene: Research needs

J Poesen - Earth surface processes and landforms, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Soil erosion is a geomorphological and, at the same time, a land degradation process that
may cause environmental and property damage, loss of livelihoods and services as well as …

Predicting soil erosion and sediment yield at regional scales: where do we stand?

J De Vente, J Poesen, G Verstraeten, G Govers… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Assessments of the implications of soil erosion require quantification of soil erosion rates
(SE) and sediment yield (SSY) at regional scales under present and future climate and land …

[HTML][HTML] A step towards a holistic assessment of soil degradation in Europe: Coupling on-site erosion with sediment transfer and carbon fluxes

P Borrelli, K Van Oost, K Meusburger, C Alewell… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil degradation due to erosion is connected to two serious environmental impacts:(i) on-
site soil loss and (ii) off-site effects of sediment transfer through the landscape. The potential …

Sediment yield reduction associated with land use changes and check dams in a catchment of the Loess Plateau, China

G Zhao, GM Kondolf, X Mu, M Han, Z He, Z Rubin… - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Large-scale sediment control efforts on the Loess Plateau of China and resulting reductions
in sediment yield have been documented. However, it remains unclear how these control …

The sediment delivery problem revisited

J De Vente, J Poesen, M Arabkhedri… - Progress in physical …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding the sediment delivery process at the drainage basin scale remains a
challenge in erosion and sedimentation research. In the absence of reliable spatially …

Sediment yield in Europe: Spatial patterns and scale dependency

M Vanmaercke, J Poesen, G Verstraeten, J de Vente… - Geomorphology, 2011 - Elsevier
Our understanding about the regional variation of Sediment Yield (SY) in Europe and its
scale dependency currently relies on a limited number of data for mainly larger river …

A data-based landslide susceptibility map of Africa

J Broeckx, M Vanmaercke, R Duchateau… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the spatial patterns of landslides in Africa is limited with available
landslide studies typically focusing on only one or a few study areas. Moreover, Africa is …

Land use and climate change effects on soil erosion in a semi-arid mountainous watershed (High Atlas, Morocco)

V Simonneaux, A Cheggour, C Deschamps… - Journal of Arid …, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to simulate the evolution of soil erosion in a semi-arid
mountainous watershed (225 km 2, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco) under different …