2024-03-29T07:53:32Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/928362016-09-06T09:50:38Zcom_10261_74com_10261_6col_10261_327
Cerdá, Artemi
Giménez-Morera, A.
Burguet, María
Arcenegui, Victoria
González Peñaloza, Félix
García Orenes, Fuensanta
Pereira, Paulo Alexandre da Silva
2014-03-03T12:08:18Z
2014-03-03T12:08:18Z
2012
Cuadernos de Investigacion Geografica 38(1): 75-94 (2012)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/92836
Land abandonment throughout the twentieth century led to an intense landscape transformation in the mountain areas of the Iberian Peninsula. In some cases, and after 50 years of abandonment, agriculture returned with the development of commercial farms and the intensification of the agrarian activities. In the Easter Iberian Peninsula, following the abandonment of olive groves, vineyards and cereals during the 50's, has been in the past two decades the expansion of intensive citrus production on sloping terrain. Geomorphological transects and simulated rainfall experiments have quantified the impact of traditional rainfed cultivation of the 50's, abandonment, and the intensification of farming on the processes and landforms of erosion on the northern slopes of the Serra Grossa, south of the province of Valencia. It was found that the citrus groves have the highest number of rills and gullies. These erosive morphologies were not in the traditional crop tillage, and when they formed in the abandoned fields were soon controlled by the growth of vegetation. The abandonment of the crops reduced the soil losses, but the intensification of the agriculture with the citrus production has accelerated the soil erosion rates that exceed by several orders of magnitude (x4) the soil erosion rates measured during the abandonment and multiply by 17 the quantified traditional rainfed agriculture soil losses. Tillage of traditional rainfed orchards reduced runoff, but increased the concentration of sediments of the surface wash. © Universidad de La Rioja.
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Erosion
Citrus
Intensification
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Erosión
Abandono
Cultivo
Intensificación
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El impacto del cultivo, el abandono y la intensificación de la agricultura en la pérdida de agua y suelo. El ejemplo de la vertiente norte de la serra grossa en el este peninsular
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