The PESERA model was originally developed for Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment in an EU-funded (FP5) project.

The model has been extended to capture the role of specific biophysical processes that are found in the DESIRE study sites. In general these include

• grazing,
• fire,
• wind erosion.

The model has also been extended for a number of particular mitigation and remediation measures that have been proposed by the study sites as managment strategies including

• mulching and/or maintaining ground cover vegetation within tree crops,
• retention of crop residues as litter layer at harvesting of arable and other crops,
• irrigation and water harvesting for croplands,
• invasion and clearance of unpalatable species,
• terracing and strip cropping,
• nitrogen budgeting and rotations.

Finally, the expertise of other DESIRE partners has allowed extension in areas of

• mass movements,
• data collection calibration against reservoir data.

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	WP5.2 Improved process descriptions in the PESERA model
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