Sediment yield in Europe: regional differences in scale dependence
Vanmaercke, M., Poesen, J., Verstraeten, G., Maetens, W., de Vente, J., Ocakoglu, F.
In: Banasik, K., Horowitz, A., Owens, P., Stone, M., Walling, D. (eds). 2010. IAHS Publ. 337. Sediment dynamics for a changing Future. Proceedings of the ICCE symposium held at Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW. Warsaw, Poland, pp. 44-52. ISBN 978-1-907161-10-0
Current understanding of the regional variation in sediment yield (SY) and its scale dependence is limited for Europe. Based on an extensive literature review, a SY-database was assembled to bridge this gap. Measured SY-data from 1794 different locations throughout Europe were collected, representing a minimum of 29 203 catchment-years of records and comprising a wide range of catchment areas (0.01 km2 to 1 360 000 km2). Clear differences were observed between the temperate regions of Europe (low SY-values, i.e. <50 t km-2 year-1) and the Mediterranean and mountainous regions of Europe where SY-values are generally higher (i.e. >300 t km-2 year-1). Furthermore, for most temperate regions a negative relationship was found between catchment area and SY. For mountainous and Mediterranean regions, this was generally not the case. A comparison of catchment SY with rates of sheet and rill erosion also points to clear regional differences. Whereas soil erosion rates are generally higher than SY for temperate regions, this is not the case for the Mediterranean region. This indicates the importance of other erosion processes (i.e. landslides, riverbank erosion, and gullies). The results illustrate important regional differences in the scale dependence of SY and emphasize the need for an integrated modelling approach considering various types of sediment source and sink.
Sediment Yield in Europe: spatial patterns and scale dependency
Vanmaercke, M., Poesen, J., Verstraeten, G., de Vente, J., Maetens, W., Ocakoglu, F., Jankauskas, B.
Temme, A.J.A.M.; Baartman, J.E.M.; Schoorl, J.M. (2009) Can uncertain landscape evolution models discriminate between landscape responses to stable and changing future climate? A millennial-scale test. Global and Planetary Change 69 (1-2), 48 - 58.
Poesen, J., Torri, D., Vanwalleghem, T. (2011) Gully Erosion: Procedures to Adopt When modelling Soil Erosion in Landscapes Affected by Gullying In: Morgan, R.P.C., Nearing, M.A. (eds). 2011. Handbook of Erosion Modelling, 1st edition, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Chapter 19 pp. 367-396. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9010-7
Reed MS, Podesta G, Fazey I, Beharry NC, Coen R, Geeson N, Hessel R, Hubacek K, Letson D, Nainggolan D, Prell C, Psarra D, Rickenbach MG, Schwilch G, Stringer LC, Thomas AD (in press) Combining theoretical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change: a literature review. Ecological Economics
Reed MS, Dougill AJ (2010) Linking Degradation Assessment to Sustainable Land Management: a decision support system for Kalahari pastoralists. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 149–155
Stringer LC, Reed MS, Dougill AJ, Twyman C (2009) Local adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environmental Science & Policy 12: 748-765 Foxton T, Reed MS, Stringer LC (2009) Governing long-term socio-ecological change: What can resilience and transitions approaches learn from each other? Environmental Policy and Governance 19: 3–20
Buenemann M, Martius C, Jones JW, Herrmann SM, Klein D, Mulligan M, Reed MS, Winslow M, Washington-Allen RA, Lal R, Ojima D (2011) Integrative geospatial approaches for monitoring and assessing the sustainability of land management: rationale, potentials, and characteristics. Land Degradation & Development 22: 226-239
Nkonya E, Reed MS, Mortimore M, Winslow M, Olukoye G, Mirzabaev A (2011) Monitoring and assessing the influence of social, economic and policy factors on sustainable land management in drylands. Land Degradation & Development 22: 240-247
Conferences
Feras Youssef The International Symposium Agro Environ 2010”, May 19 to 22, 2010 in Cancún, Mexico. (Oral presentation in English). The abstract title is: Calibration of RWEQ in a Patchy Landscape; a First Step towards a Regional Scale Wind Erosion Model
Youssef, F. Visser,S. Karssenberg, D. Bruggeman, A.Erpul, G 2010. Calibration of RWEQ in a Patchy Landscape; a First Step towards a Regional Scale Wind Erosion Model. Third Conference on Desertification, 16 - 17 July 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
Baartman, J.E.M., Schoorl, J.M., Veldkamp, A., Ritsema, C.J. Erosion in a landscape evolution context: LISEM and LAPSUS – variation in temporal and spatial scales. Scaling & Governance Conference, 11-12 November 2010, Wageningen, NL
Baartman, J.E.M., Van Gorp, W., Temme, A.J.A.M., Schoorl, J.M. Modelling sediment dynamics due to hillslope-river interactions: incorporating fluvial behaviour in LEM LAPSUS. EGU 2011, 4-8 April 2011, Vienna, Austria (oral presentation)
F. Youssef. Strategies for Measuring Wind Erosion for regional scale modeling”. EGU 2012,22-27 April 2012, Vienna, Austria (oral presentation)
Nainggolan, D., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., & Reed, Mark. International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) 11th Biennial Conference. Germany on 22 – 25 August 2010. Title of oral presentation: ‘An integrated modelling approach for evaluating land use change in a degradation prone agro-ecosystem of southern Spain’.
Nainggolan, D., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., & Reed, Mark. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 1-3 September 2010: Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment. Royal Geographical Society – London. Title of oral presentation: ‘Integrated Modelling of Land Use Change in Mediterranean Dryland Agro-ecosystem: What can be learnt from the process?’.
Nainggolan, D., Fleskens, L., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., & Reed, Mark. Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Berlin 8-9 October 2010. Title of oral presentation: ‘Regional Effects of Local Responses to Uncertainty of Agricultural Water Supply in Múrcia, Spain’.
Fleskens L, Kirkby MJ, Irvine BJ. 2010. The PESERA-DESMICE modelling framework for grid-based assessment of the physical impact and economic viability of land degradation mitigation technologies DESURVEY/IFAD Conference 28-29 September 2010, Rome, Italy.
Nainggolan D et al. 2010. Regional effects of local responses to uncertainty of agricultural water supply in Múrcia, Spain. Berlin Conference on Environmental Change, 7-8 October 2010, Berlin, Germany.
Loder J, Reed MS (2009) Interacting with rural change: rural planning research at University of Aberdeen, Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors mid-term conference, Battleby, April
Reed MS (2009) Rural Planning and Policy: research at University of Aberdeen. Royal Town Planning Institute SPEF workshop, Linking Research and Practice, April.
Fleskens L, Hubacek K, Reed MS, Termansen M. 2010. Assessing local solutions for global environmental problems: model development and application for the case of mitigating land degradation. International Society for Ecological Economics Conference, 22-25 August 2010, Oldenburg, Germany.
Papers in preparation
Baartman, J.E.M., Jetten, V.G., Ritsema, C.J., submitted. Effects of spatial upscaling and rainfall variability on erosion patterns for a semi-arid Mediterranean catchment using openLISEM. Submitted to Hydrological Processes.
Fleskens, L.; Graaff, J. de (2010). Conserving natural resources in olive orchards on sloping land: Alternative goal programming approaches towards effective design of cross-compliance and agri-environmental measures. Agricultural Systems 103 (8). - p. 521 – 534
Graaff, J. de; Kessler, C.A.; Olsen, P. (2010) Farm-level adoption of soil and water conservation measures and policy implications in Europe. Land Use Policy 27 (1). - p. 1 - 3.
Graaff, J. de; Duarte, F.; Fleskens, L.; Figueiredo, T. de (2010) The future of olive groves on sloping land and ex-ante assessment of cross compliance for erosion control. Land Use Policy 27 (1). - p. 33 - 41.
Jones, N., de Graaff, J., Rodrigo, I., Duarte, F., 2011. Historical review of land use changes in Portugal (before and after EU integration in 1986) and their implications for land degradation and conservation, with a focus on Centro and Alentejo regions. Applied Geography 31, 1036-1048.
Baartman, J.E.M., Veldkamp, A., Jetten, V.G., Temme, A.J.A.M., Schoorl, J.M. in prep. Exploring the role of rainfall variability and exterme events in long-term landscape evolution. In preparation for Catena.
Baartman, J.E.M., Van Gorp, W., Temme, A.J.A.M., Schoorl, J.M., Accepted. Simulating sediment dynamics due to hillslope – river interactions at the catchment scale and on annual timescales using a landscape evolution model. Accepted for publication in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
F. Youssef, S. M Visser, D. Karssenberg, E. Slingerland, L. Stroosnijder, Feras Ziadat. Strategies for Measuring Wind Erosion at the Regional Scale. Earth surface processes and land forms journal (submitted)
F. Youssef, S. M Visser, D. Karssenberg, A. Bruggeman, G. Erpul (2012)Calibration of RWEQ in a patchy landscape; a first step towards a regional scale wind erosion model.. Aeolian Research 3: 467-476.
F. Youssef, S.M. Visser , D. Karssenberg, G. Erpul, W. M. Cornelis, D. Gabriels, A. Poortinga.The effect of vegetation pattern wind-blown mass transport on a regional scale: A wind tunnel experiment. Geomorphology Journal (accepted).
E. Argaman, Zeiliguer, S .D. Keesstra. Monitoring Lake surface Albedo as indicator of impact assessment of climate pattern & hydrological system changes at its watershed. Accepted - Land Degradation & Development
Akhtar-Schuster M, Thomas R, Stringer LC, Chasek P, and Seely M Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. In press in Land Degradation and Development
Chasek P, Essahli W, Akhtar-Schuster M, Stringer LC, Thomas R Integrated Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: Horizontal Knowledge Management at the National and International Levels. Submitted to Land Degradation and Development.
Reed MS, Evely AC , Cundill G, Fazey I, Glass J, Laing A, Newig J, Parrish B, Prell C, Raymond C, Stringer LC (in press) What is social learning? Ecology & Society
Fazey I, Perez-Garcia Gamarra J, Fischer J, Christie M, Reed MS, Stringer LC (in press) Reducing Vulnerability to Future Environmental Change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Dougill AJ, Fraser EDG, Reed MS (in press) Anticipating vulnerability in food systems to climate variability and change: challenges of using dynamic systems approaches and the case of pastoral systems in Botswana. Ecology & Society
Nainggolan, D, Termansen, M, Hubacek, K, Reed, MS, Cebollero, ED (in press). Typology of farmers, land use trajectories, and the implications on ecosystem services in a semi-arid Mediterranean agro-ecosystem of south-eastern Spain. Regional Environmental Change
Fleskens L, Nainggolan D, Termansen M, Hubacek K, Reed MS (under review) Regional effects of local responses to uncertainty of agricultural water supply in Murcia, Spain. Regional Environmental Change
L. Fleskens, M.J. Kirkby, B.J. Irvine (in prep). THE PESERA-DESMICE MODELLING FRAMEWORK FOR GRID-BASED ASSESSMENT OF THE PHYSICAL IMPACT AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF LAND DEGRADATION MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES. Environmental Management. DESIRE special issue
L. C. Stringer, L. Fleskens (in prep) PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION OF MONITORING AND MODELLING OF SLM IN DIFFERENT DESERTIFICATION-PRONE AREAS. Environmental Management. DESIRE special issue
L. Fleskens (in prep) APPLICATION OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATING LAND DEGRADATION MITIGATION MEASURES ON AGRICULTURAL LAND: A SYNTHESIS OF FINDINGS AND UNSOLVED ISSUES. Land Degradation and Developement. DESIRE special issue
D. Nainggolan (1), L. Fleskens (1), L. C. Stringer (in prep) AN EXPLORATION OF POLICY OPTIONS WITH THE PESERA-DESMICE MODEL. Environmental Management. DESIRE special issue
Theses
Baartman, J.E.M. 2012. Mind the gap: modeling event-based and millennial-scale landscape dynamics. PhD thesis Wageningen University
Reports
Contribution to a UNDP-UNCCD report called "The forgotten billion - progress towards the MDGs in the drylands"
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