Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Distance, Time and Scale in Soil Erosion Processes - Themed Topic, December 2010

Distance, Time and Scale in Soil Erosion Processes – Themed Topic, December 2010

Edited by M. J. Kirkby

Soil erosion has long concerned geomorphologists. It is a classic conundrum as the physics of particle motion reveals fundamental controls on the erosion, transport and deposition process at the particle scale, but in relation to landform development, our concerns are at the hillslope or even larger scales. This special issue draws together the very contrasting interpretations of soil erosion and seeks to show where these overlap and where they diverge so steering where soil erosion research needs to develop over the next decade.

Articles in this issue:

Distance, time and scale in soil erosion processes

M. J. Kirkby

Hillslope scale surface runoff, sediment and nutrient losses associated with tramline wheelings

M. Silgram, D. R. Jackson, A Bailey, J. Quinton, C. Stevens

Soil erosion resistance effects on rill and gully initiation points and dimensions

A. Knapen and J. Poesen

Catchment scale analysis of the effect of topography, tillage direction and unpaved roads on ephemeral gully incision

Tal Svoray, Hila Markovitch

The implications of data selection for regional erosion and sediment yield modelling

Joris de Vente, Jean Poesen, Gerard Govers, Carolina Boix-Fayos

Effects of the largest daily events on total soil erosion by rainwater. An analysis of the USLE database

J.C. González-Hidalgo, M. de Luis, R. J. Batalla

Agricultural soil erosion and global carbon cycle: controversy over?

Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Thomas Hoffmann, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Markus Dotterweich

Comment on ‘A transport-distance based approach to scaling erosion rates’: Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Wainwright et al.

P. B. Hairsine, G. C. Sander

Response to Hairsine's and Sander's ‘Comment on “A transport-distance based approach to scaling erosion rates”: Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Wainwright et al.’

John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, Eva N. Müller, Richard E. Brazier, D. Mark Powell

Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion. Reply

Anthony J. Parsons, Richard E. Brazier, John Wainwright and D. Mark Powell

Comment on 'Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion' (ESPL 31: 1364-1383 (2006))

P. I. A. Kinnell

A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 3. Evaluating scaling characteristics of MAHLERAN

John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, Eva N. Müller, Richard E. Brazier, D. Mark Powell, Bantigegne Fenti

A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 1. Background and model development

John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, Eva N. Müller, Richard E. Brazier, D. Mark Powell, Bantigegne Fenti

Causes and underlying processes of measurement variability in field erosion plots in Mediterranean conditions

M. C. Boix-Fayos, M. Martínez-Mena, A. Calvo-Cases, E. Arnau-Rosalén, J. Albaladejo, V. Castillo

Multi-year tracking of sediment sources in a small agricultural watershed using rare earth elements

A. Kimoto, M. A. Nearing, M. J. Shipitalo, V. O. Polyakov

Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion

Anthony J. Parsons, Richard E. Brazier, John Wainwright, D. Mark Powell

Is sediment delivery a fallacy?

Anthony J. Parsons, John Wainwright, Richard E. Brazier, D. Mark Powell

Predicting catchment sediment yield in Mediterranean environments: the importance of sediment sources and connectivity in Italian drainage basins

Joris de Vente, Jean Poesen, Paolo Bazzoffi, Anton Van Rompaey, Gert Verstraeten

Soil detachment and transport on field- and laboratory-scale interrill areas: erosion processes and the size-selectivity of eroded sediment

O. Malam Issa, Y. Le Bissonnais, O. Planchon, David Favis-Mortlock, Norbert Silvera, John Wainwright

Soil erosion modelling with EUROSEM at Embori and Mukogodo catchments, Kenya

B. M. Mati, R. P. C. Morgan, J. N. Quinton

Evaluation of the LISEM soil erosion model in two catchments in the East African Highlands

Rudi Hessel, Rik van den Bosch, Olga Vigiak