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Images showing details of experimental, measuring and monitoring work Cointzio, Mexico under WP4.2.

Cointzio watershed

SIP cover Cienega

SIP cover Cortina

View of Cointzio watershed

Field experiment composite

Monitoring at different scales

Watershed results

Land use and practice composite

Land use and practice results

Composite views

Poster
Measured water levels

Measured water levels
One of the plots with the flume and the two tanks to catch the runoff and transported sediments (photo: C. Prat)

Runoff and erosion plot
Rio Grande watershed (9 km<sup>2</sup>), Google Earth 2007

Rio Grande watershed
La Cortina monthly rainfall, 2005-2006<br>

La Cortina: monthly rainfall
Ciutzeo and Cointzio watersheds and La Cortina site (red cross) (source: Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial, SUMA, Morelia, México 2007)<br>

La Cortina: study site location
View of La Cortina plots during the dry season (© Christian Prat)<br>

La Cortina: view of plots
Field plot with flume and two tanks to catch runoff and transported sediments (© Christian Prat)

La Cortina: flume and tanks
Ciutzeo and Cointzio watersheds and La Cienega site (red cross) (source: Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial, SUMA, Morelia, México 2007)

La Cienega: study site location
Atecuaro caldera (looking towards the plots) in the dry season (© Christian Prat)<br>

La Cienega: Atecuaro caldera
Gullies in the landscape during the rainy season, Atecuaro caldera (© Christian Prat)<br>

La Cienega: gullies in the landscape
La Cienega monthly rainfall, 2002-2005.<br>

La Cienega: monthly rainfall
Cuitzeo and Cointzio watersheds and RioGrande site (red cross) (source: Ordenamiento Ecológico Territorial, SUMA, Morelia, México 2007)<br>

Rio Grande: site location
Topography and structure of Atecuaro caldera, showing the structure E-W and EN-SW more important of the region (Garduño VH, 1999)

Rio Grande: topography of Atecuaro caldera
Landscape of Rio Grande during dry season (fallow after corn) (© Christian Prat, 2007)

Rio Grande: landscape
Rio Grande watershed (photo: Google Earth, 2007)

Rio Grande: watershed
Conservation measures and experimental setup.<br>

La Cortina: experimental design
H-flume and full water tanks (© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: H-flume and full tanks
Weather station (© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: weather station
(© Christian Prat, 2005)

La Cortina: land preparation by tractor
(© Christian Prat, 2005)

La Cortina: land preparation by oxen
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: plot with emerging corn
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: barley ready for harvest
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: plot with barley
Tensiometers in plots during the dry season (© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cortina: plots with tensiometers
Setup of soil erosion measurement plots.<br>

La Cienega: experimental setup
Aerial view of the site with plots and tanks (small points in white in the border of the gully) (photo: Google Earth, 2007)

La Cienega: aerial view of site
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: plots, H-flume and tanks
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: fallow plots, H-flume and tanks
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: collector tanks for plots 1 and 2
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: collector tank after heavy rain event
Tensiometers in plot between corn plants (© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: tensiometers
Disk infiltrometer in plot 3 (© Christian Prat, 2007)

La Cienega: disk infiltrometer
Site with electronic limnigraphs (Thalymede OTT) during normal, 5 cm high, flow (© Christian Prat, 2007)<br>

Rio Grande: limnigraph during normal flow
Site with electronic limnigraphs (Thalymede OTT) during flood of 50 cm high flow (© Christian Prat, 2007)

Rio Grande: limnigraph during high flow
Rio Grande landscape, of corn field and fallow, during the rainy season (© Christian Prat, 2007)<br>

Rio Grande: landscape during rainy season
Rio Grande landscape, of fallow (in foreground), forest and corn fields, during the dry season (© Christian Prat, 2008)

Rio Grande: landscape during dry season
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

Rio Grande: 1 year old avocado plantation
Mixed landscape of fields and forest with remains of an illegally felled tree (© Christian Prat, 2008)

Rio Grande: illegal felling
(© Christian Prat, 2008)

Rio Grande: forest, poorly managed
(© Christian Prat, 2007)

Rio Grande: illegal deforestation
(© Christian Prat, 2005)

Rio Grande: charcoal making
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