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General photos of the Guadalentín basin, illustrating a number of aspects of desertification.
Series of check dams in a small drainage line on a hillslope (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Series of check dams
Extended cereal fields (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Cereal fields 2
Deep ploughing of an abandoned field with a mouldboard plough (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Deep ploughing
Slopes reforested in the late 1970s, near Alhama de Murcia (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Reforestation 3
Sighs of sheetwash and ephemeral gully erosion on lightly sloping terrain after a rainstorm (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Sheetwash 1
Signs of sheetwash and ephemeral gully erosion on lightly sloping terrain after a rainstorm (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Sheetwash 2
Fallow land and olives (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Fallow & olives
Drip irrigation (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Drip irrigation 1
Drip irrigation (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Drip irrigation 2
Ephemeral gully development after a rainfall event (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Ephemeral gully 1
Ephemeral gully development after a rainfall event (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Ephemeral gully 2
Stone bench within a field to stop gully development (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Stone bench
Ephemeral gully development after a rainfall event (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Ephemeral gully 3
Ephemeral gully development after a rainfall event (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Ephemeral gully 4
Ephemeral gully development on a bare field caused by runoff water from upslope shrubland (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Ephemeral gully 5
Earthern terraces on bare cereal fields (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Earthen terraces
Cereal field with crop residue after harvest (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Crop residue
Bare soil under almond trees, combined with vegetated strips (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Almonds & bare soil
Traditional stone-built terraces with almond trees (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Stone terraces
Gully development resulting in destruction of tradtional stone-built terraces (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Terrace destruction
Old plantation of alpha grass (<i>Stipa tenacissima</i>) on a steep hillslope (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Stipa tenacissima
Gully development in earthern terraces (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Gully development 6
Reforestation with small pine trees (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Reforestation 4
Announcement for a development of large houses with swimming pool (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Proposed development
Large scale land levelling for highly irrigated lettuce plantations (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Land levelling for lettuces
Excessive sprinkling irrigation of a lettuce field in August (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Excessive irrigation 1
Excessive sprinkling irrigation of a lettuce field in August (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Excessive irrigation 2
Large scale land levelling for highly irrigate lettuce plantations (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Land levelling 2
Recently levelled land with a forested area in the background (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Land levelling 1
Field visit with participants of the DESIRE WB3 training workshop held in Murcia (© Joris de Vente 2007)

DESIRE workshop participants
Lettuce fields in November (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Lettuce fields 1
Lettuce fields in November (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Lettuce fields 2
Large-scale land preparation for housing near the small, traditional village of Aledo (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Housing development
Stakeholder consultation in the field during the DESIRE WB3 training workshop held in Murcia (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Stakeholder consultation
The Valdeinfierno reservoir, completely silted up (© Joris de Vente 2007)

Valdeinfierno reservoir
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Land levelling for lettuce production
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Lettuce production
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Lettuce farmer
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Cactus
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Salinisation
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Abandoned farm (1)
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Abandoned farm (2)
(photographer: Mark Reed)

Water monitoring
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Acknowledgement

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Global Change and 
Ecosystem.
 
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