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Gerard Govers
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 448
Citations - 30464
Gerard Govers is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Erosion & Surface runoff. The author has an hindex of 91, co-authored 447 publications receiving 27183 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerard Govers include The Catholic University of America & Catholic University of Leuven.
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The European Soil Erosion Model (EUROSEM): A dynamic approach for predicting sediment transport from fields and small catchments.
Rpc Morgan,John Quinton,Roger E. Smith,Gerard Govers,Jean Poesen,Karl Auerswald,G Chisci,Dino Torri,Merete Styczen +8 more
TL;DR: The European Soil Erosion Model (EUROSEM) as mentioned in this paper is a dynamic distributed model able to simulate sediment transport, erosion and deposition over the land surface by rill and interill processes in single storms for both individual fields and small catchments.
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The impact of agricultural soil erosion on the global carbon cycle
K. Van Oost,Timothy A. Quine,Gerard Govers,S. De Gryze,Johan Six,Jennifer W. Harden,J. C. Ritchie,Gregory W. McCarty,Goswin Heckrath,Costas Kosmas,Juan Vicente Giráldez,J. R. Marques da Silva,Roel Merckx +12 more
TL;DR: Using caesium-137 and carbon inventory measurements from a large-scale survey, consistent evidence is found for an erosion-induced sink of atmospheric carbon equivalent to approximately 26% of the carbon transported by erosion.
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A GIS procedure for automatically calculating the USLE LS factor on topographically complex landscape units
P.J.J Desmet,Gerard Govers +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a computer algorithm to calculate the USLE and RUSLE LS-factors over a two-dimensional landscape is presented and compared to a manual method, both methods yield broadly similar results in terms of relative erosion risk mapping.
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The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the mobilization and deposition of agricultural soils can significantly alter nutrient and carbon cycling, and that erosion can result in lateral fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus that are similar in magnitude to those induced by fertilizer application and crop removal.
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Rates and spatial variations of soil erosion in Europe: A study based on erosion plot data
Olivier Cerdan,Gerard Govers,Y. Le Bissonnais,K. van Oost,Jean Poesen,Nicolas Saby,Anne Gobin,Andrea Vacca,John Quinton,Karl Auerswald,Andreas Klik,F. J. P. M. Kwaad,Damien Raclot,Ion Ionita,J. Rejman,Svetla Rousseva,T. Muxart,Maria Roxo,Tomáš Dostál +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive database of short to medium-term erosion rates as measured on erosion plots in Europe under natural rainfall was compiled from the literature, and statistical analysis confirmed the dominant influence of land use and cover on soil erosion rates.