Sediment sources during the traditional land-use system in the Spanish Pyrenees

  1. García-Ruiz, J.M. 2
  2. Lasanta, T. 2
  3. González, C. 2
  4. Martí, C. 2
  5. White, S. 2
  6. Ortigosa, L. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

  2. 2 Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
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    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/039ssy097

Revista:
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

ISSN: 1474-7065

Any de publicació: 1997

Volum: 22

Número: 3

Pàgines: 351-354

Tipus: Article

SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-0043234003 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Resum

During the traditional land management system intense erosion processes affected the Spanish Pyrenees up to 2200 m a.s.l. The destruction of the upper forest levels and the expansion of the cultivated fields on the sunny, steep slopes greatly increased sediment yield to the river channels. Soil erosion reached its highest values under shifting agriculture, fallow land and, in the shrubland areas, immediately after a wildfire. Both in the subalpine and in the submediterranean areas, deforestation explains not only the main features of the landscape functioning but also the fluvial dynamics. © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.