Jean Poesen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the need for monitoring, experimental and modelling studies of gully erosion as a basis for predicting the effects of environmental change (climatic and land use changes) on gully degradation rates.

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.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed recent studies on impacts, factors and control of gully erosion and update the review on dgully erosion, environmental change: importance and research needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that the decrease in water erosion rates with increasing root mass is also exponential, according to the equation SEP e b RP, where SEP is a soil erosion parameter (e.g., interrill or rill erosion rates relative to erosion rates of bare topsoils without roots), RP is a root parameter, and b is a constant that indicates the effectiveness of the plant roots in reducing soil erosion rates.

TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model was used to estimate soil loss in Europe for the reference year 2010, within which the input factors (Rainfall erosivity, Soil erodibility, Cover-Management, Topography, Support practices) were modelled with the most recently available pan-European datasets.