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Título: | Runoff and sediment yield from land under various uses in a Mediterranean mountain area: Long-term results from an experimental station |
Autor: | Nadal-Romero, Estela CSIC ORCID ; Lasanta Martínez, Teodoro CSIC ORCID ; García-Ruiz, José María CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2013 | Editor: | John Wiley & Sons | Citación: | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 38: 346- 355 (2013) | Resumen: | In this study we analyzed runoff and sediment yield from land under various traditional and current land uses in Mediterranean mountain areas, using long-term data from an experimental station in the Aísa Valley, Central Spanish Pyrenees. Monitoring at this station has provided 20years of data that can help explain the hydrological and geomorphological changes that have been observed at larger spatial scales, and also the changes that have occurred to some of the most characteristic landscapes of the Mediterranean middle mountains. In spite of the problems associated with the use of small experimental plots, the results obtained are consistent with other studies in the Mediterranean region, and confirm the strong influence of land use changes on runoff generation and sediment yield. The results indicate that: (i) cereal cultivation on steep slopes (both alternating cereal cultivation and fallow on sloping fields and shifting agriculture on the steepest slopes) represents a major problem for soil conservation. This explains the occurrence throughout the Mediterranean mountains of many degraded hillslopes, which show evidence of sheet wash erosion, rilling, gullying and shallow landsliding; (ii) farmland abandonment has led to a marked reduction in runoff and sediment yield as a consequence of rapid plant recolonization, particularly by dense shrubs; (iii) the natural transformation of abandoned fields into grazing meadows has reduced runoff and sediment yield. Land use trends in the Mediterranean mountains are mainly characterized by generalized farmland abandonment and a decrease in livestock pressure. From a hydrological and geomorphological point of view the main consequences have been a reduction in overland flow from the hillslopes, and a reduction in sediment sources, with differences up to one order of magnitude in sediment yield from dense shrub cover and grazing meadow areas compared with areas under shifting agriculture. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | Descripción: | 28 páginas, 8 figuras, 3 tablas.- Versión preprint del artículo. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3281 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/85189 | DOI: | 10.1002/esp.3281 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1002/esp.3281 issn: 0197-9337 e-issn: 1096-9837 |
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