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High variability of soil erosion and hydrological processes in Mediterranean hillslope vineyards (Montes de Málaga, Spain)
J. Rodrigo Comino,J. D. Ruiz Sinoga,J. M. Senciales Gonzalez,Antonio Guerra-Merchán,Manuel Seeger,Johannes B. Ries +5 more
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In this paper, a combined methodology was applied, using soil analysis, a small portable rainfall simulator and a Guelph permeameter on one experimental plot cultivated with vineyards with steep slopes.Abstract:
Conventional Mediterranean vineyards from the Montes de Malaga (Axarquia region, Spain) are characterized by high average temperatures, extreme rainfall events during autumn and winter, elevated stoniness and steep slopes (20–50°). Traditionally, several problems of high soil loss, rill and ephemeral gully generation, and elevated runoff are observed by farmers, which are increasing land degradation processes and a decrease of the productivity. According to this, the main aims of this paper were: i) to quantify the initial soil loss, surface flow and infiltration processes; ii) to characterize and describe the hydrological and geomorphological dynamics; iii) to detect the key factors, which control the soil erosion processes. For this purpose, a combined methodology was applied, using soil analysis, a small portable rainfall simulator and a Guelph permeameter on one experimental plot cultivated with vineyards with steep slopes. Results showed a high variability of soil erosion and permeability processes. Soil analysis showed an elevated concentration of silt particles and stoniness, with higher contents of sand particles between 0 and 5 cm, and clays from 5 cm. With a Guelph permeameter, high average of permeability and saturated hydraulic conductivity with elevated standard deviation were observed. Furthermore, an increase of these parameters from the upper to the foot slope was registered. By using rainfall simulations, on the upper and the foot slope positions the highest runoff coefficient and soil loss were registered. The most elevated peak of sediment concentration was obtained on the middle slope. In general, high infiltration coefficients between 66.5 and 100% were observed. In conclusion it was observed that the activation of the soil erosion processes was due to the distribution of the surface soil components (high roughness, several cracks and high stoniness and silt content), the steep slopes and the impact of the soil traditional tillage practices. These Mediterranean hillslope vineyards registered a mixed Hortonian-Hewlettian model, which combines surface and sub-surface flow conditioned by the micro-topographical changes and its saturation degree.read more
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Splash erosion : A review with unanswered questions
María Fernández-Raga,Covadonga Palencia,Saskia Keesstra,Antonio Jordán,Roberto Fraile,Marta Angulo-Martínez,Artemi Cerdà,Artemi Cerdà +7 more
TL;DR: A review of the scientific literature published in peer-reviewed international journals (ISI) over the last decades on splash erosion research sheds light on the current scientific knowledge on this topic and highlights the research gaps and unanswered questions in our understanding of soil erosion processes due to splash as mentioned in this paper.
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Nitrogen losses in vineyards under different types of soil groundcover. A field runoff simulator approach in central Spain
Andrés García-Díaz,Ramón Bienes,Blanca Sastre,Agata Novara,Luciano Gristina,Artemi Cerdà,Artemi Cerdà +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a field runoff simulator was built to assess runoff and nutrient losses under different soil management strategies in Central Spain, and two types of groundcover were established to compare with conventional tillage: spontaneous vegetation (CS) and seeded Brachypodium distachyon (CB).
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Five decades of soil erosion research in "terroir". The State-of-the-Art
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the state-of-the-art work on soil erosion in vineyards is presented, concluding that soil erosion rates in vineyard are higher than those in other land uses and represents a worldwide threat to sustainability.
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Understanding soil erosion processes in Mediterranean sloping vineyards (Montes de Málaga, Spain).
J. Rodrigo Comino,J. Rodrigo Comino,José María Senciales,María Concepción Ramos,José A. Martínez-Casasnovas,Teodoro Lasanta,Eric C. Brevik,Johannes B. Ries,J. D. Ruiz Sinoga +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a precision analysis of the patterns of soil erosion and the soil surface components at the intra-plot scale was performed after monitoring soil erosion processes during 25 natural rainfall events.
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Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database
Mehdi Rahmati,Mehdi Rahmati,Lutz Weihermüller,Jan Vanderborght,Yakov Pachepsky,Lili Mao,Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi,Niloofar Moosavi,Hossein Kheirfam,Carsten Montzka,Kris Van Looy,Brigitta Tóth,Brigitta Tóth,Zeinab Hazbavi,Wafa Al Yamani,Ammar Albalasmeh,Ma'in Z. Alghzawi,Rafael Angulo-Jaramillo,Antonio Celso Dantas Antonino,George Arampatzis,Robson André Armindo,Hossein Asadi,Yazidhi Bamutaze,Jordi Batlle-Aguilar,Jordi Batlle-Aguilar,Béatrice Bechet,Fabian Becker,Günter Blöschl,Klaus Bohne,Isabelle Braud,Clara Castellano,Artemi Cerdà,Maha Chalhoub,Rogerio Cichota,Milena Cislerova,Brent Clothier,Yves Coquet,Yves Coquet,Wim Cornelis,Corrado Corradini,Artur Paiva Coutinho,Muriel Bastista de Oliveira,José Ronaldo de Macedo,Matheus Fonseca Durães,Hojat Emami,Iraj Eskandari,A Farajnia,Alessia Flammini,Nándor Fodor,Mamoun A. Gharaibeh,Mohamad Hossein Ghavimipanah,Teamrat A. Ghezzehei,Simone Giertz,Evangelos G. Hatzigiannakis,Rainer Horn,Juan J. Jiménez,Diederik Jacques,Saskia Keesstra,Saskia Keesstra,Hamid Kelishadi,Mahboobeh Kiani-Harchegani,Mehdi Kouselou,Madan K. Jha,Laurent Lassabatere,Xiaoyan Li,Mark A. Liebig,Lubomir Lichner,M.V. López,Deepesh Machiwal,Dirk Mallants,Micael Stolben Mallmann,Jean Dalmo de Oliveira Marques,Miles R. Marshall,Jan Mertens,Félicien Meunier,Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi,Binayak P. Mohanty,Mansonia Pulido-Moncada,Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro,Renato Morbidelli,David Moret-Fernández,Ali Akbar Moosavi,Mohammad Reza Mosaddeghi,Seyed Bahman Mousavi,Hasan Mozaffari,K. Nabiollahi,Mohammad Reza Neyshabouri,Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni,Theophilo Benedicto Ottoni Filho,Mohammad Reza Pahlavan-Rad,Andreas Panagopoulos,Stephan Peth,Pierre-Emmanuel Peyneau,Tommaso Picciafuoco,Tommaso Picciafuoco,Jean Poesen,Manuel Pulido,Dalvan José Reinert,Sabine Reinsch,Meisam Rezaei,Francis Parry Roberts,David A. Robinson,Jesús Rodrigo-Comino,Jesús Rodrigo-Comino,Otto Corrêa Rotunno Filho,Tadaomi Saito,Hideki Suganuma,Carla Saltalippi,Renáta Sándor,Brigitta Schütt,Manuel Seeger,Nasrollah Sepehrnia,Ehsan Sharifi Moghaddam,Manoj K. Shukla,Shiraki Shutaro,Ricardo Sorando,Ajayi Asishana Stanley,Peter Strauss,Zhongbo Su,Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi,Encarnación V. Taguas,Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira,Ali Reza Vaezi,Mehdi Vafakhah,Tomas Vogel,Iris Vogeler,Jana Votrubova,Steffen Werner,Thierry Winarski,Deniz Yilmaz,Michael H. Young,Steffen Zacharias,Yijian Zeng,Ying Zhao,Hong Zhao,Harry Vereecken +135 more
TL;DR: Rahmati et al. as mentioned in this paper presented and analyzed a novel global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG)database, which covers research from 1976 to late 2017.
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