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Soil erosion and sediment delivery in a mountain catchment under scenarios of land use change using a spatially distributed numerical model |
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L. C. Alatorre, S. Beguería, N. Lana-Renault, A. Navas, J. M. García-Ruiz |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 16, no. 5 ; Nr. 16, no. 5 (2012-05-08), S.1321-1334 |
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250013290
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-16-1321-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Soil erosion and sediment yield are strongly affected by land use/land cover
(LULC). Spatially distributed erosion models are of great interest to assess
the expected effect of LULC changes on soil erosion and sediment yield.
However, they can only be applied if spatially distributed data is available
for their calibration. In this study the soil erosion and sediment delivery
model WATEM/SEDEM was applied to a small (2.84 km2) experimental
catchment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees. Model calibration was performed
based on a dataset of soil redistribution rates derived from point 137Cs
inventories, allowing capture differences per land use in the main model
parameters. Model calibration showed a good convergence to a global optimum
in the parameter space, which was not possible to attain if only external
(not spatially distributed) sediment yield data were available. Validation of
the model results against seven years of recorded sediment yield at the
catchment outlet was satisfactory. Two LULC scenarios were then modeled to
reproduce land use at the beginning of the twentieth century and a
hypothetic future scenario, and to compare the simulation results to the
current LULC situation. The results show a reduction of about one order of
magnitude in gross erosion (3180 to 350 Mg yr−1) and sediment delivery
(11.2 to 1.2 Mg yr−1 ha−1) during the last decades as a result
of the abandonment of traditional land uses (mostly agriculture) and
subsequent vegetation recolonization. The simulation also allowed assessing
differences in the sediment sources and sinks within the catchment. |
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