A5025491200- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Landslides and related hazards
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Art Education and Development
- Art History and Market Analysis
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Earthquake Detection and Analysis
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Land Use and Management
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Roma Tre University
2025
KU Leuven
2022-2024
Joint Research Centre
2021-2024
European Commission
2021
Changes in future soil erosion rates are driven by climatic conditions, land use patterns, socio-economic development, farmers' choices, and importantly modified agro-environmental policies. This study simulates the impact of expected change projections on water (sheet rill processes) 2050 within agricultural areas European Union UK, compared to a current representative baseline (2016). We used Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) adjusted at continental scale with rainfall erosivity...
The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. Here, we present comprehensive set future erosivity projections at 30 arc-second (∼1 km2) spatial scale using 19 downscaled General Circulation Models (GCMs) simulating three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) the periods 2041–2060 2061–2080. were obtained based on Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) approach relating depth...
Soil erosion is both a major driver and consequence of land degradation with significant on-site off-site costs which are critical to understand quantify. One cost soil originates from the sediments delivered aquatic systems (e.g., rivers, lakes, seas), may generate broad array environmental economic impacts. As part EU Observatory (EUSO) working group on erosion, we provide comprehensive assessment existing sediment removal European Union (EU) catchments due water erosion. These...
The reformed Common Agricultural Policy of 2023-2027 aims to promote a more sustainable and fair agricultural system in the European Union. Among proposed measures, incentivized adoption cover crops soil during winter provides numerous benefits such as improved structure reduced nutrient leaching erosion. Despite this recognized importance, availability spatial data on is scarce. increasing field parcel declarations Union has not yet filled gap due its insufficient information content,...
Abstract Healthy soils are essential for sustainable food production, achieving climate neutrality and halting the loss of biodiversity. The European Commission turned spotlights on these vital aspects with launch EU Soil Observatory (EUSO) in 2021 to support Green Deal. Also, Strategy 2030 proposed Monitoring Law marked a major milestone soil protection. This article provides an overview functioning EUSO within this policy context. Through its activities, supports EU‐wide monitoring system...
Soil erosion is a complex process involving multiple natural and anthropic agents, causing the deterioration of components comprising soil health. Here, we provide an estimate spatial patterns cropland susceptibility to by sheet rill, gully, wind, tillage, root crops harvesting report co-occurrence these processes using multi-model approach. In addition, give global overview potential future changes, identify locations where concurrent may be expected intersect with projected dry/wet climate...
As a network of researchers we release an open-access database (EUSEDcollab) water discharge and suspended sediment yield time series records collected in small to medium sized catchments Europe. EUSEDcollab is compiled overcome the scarcity data at relevant spatial scales for studies on runoff, soil loss by erosion delivery. Multi-source measurement from numerous institutions were harmonised into common metadata structure. Data reuse facilitated through accompanying descriptors providing...
Soil erosion is time compressed into a number of episodic erosive rainfall events with an associated potential to detach and transport soil particles (rainfall erosivity), each possessing unique spatial temporal characteristics. Rainfall erosivity in Europe follow extreme value distributions which limited rainstorms dominate the long-term budget available energy. To combat targeted manor, timely mitigation measures should derive from dynamic model simulations that incorporate spatially...
The crop cover-management (C-) factor in arable landscapes describes the soil erosion susceptibility associated with seasonally cultivated crops. Previous informatic and computational limitations have led many modelling studies to prescribe C-factor values assume spatial temporal stationarity. However, multiple influencing factors ranging from parcel-scale cultivation management regional-scale rainfall regimes motivates new methods capture this variation when identifying at-risk areas. Here,...
Abstract. Heavy rainfall is the main driver of water-induced soil erosion, necessitating accurate spatial and temporal predictions erosivity to predict erosion response. This study evaluates ground radar-based EUropean RADar CLIMatology (EURADCLIM) precipitation grids quantify across European countries. Compared Global Rainfall Erosivity Database (GloREDa) gauge-based interpolations, EURADCLIM overpredicts erosivity, principally due residual artefacts in some regions which inflate...
Larger samples of measurement data unlock far-reaching opportunities to improve our predictive capabilities and process understanding in erosion sediment load modelling through: (i) streamlining model applications compare performance understand generalizability across differing environments, (ii) improving upscaling capacity unmonitored locations via data-oriented approaches, (iii) developing new approaches better suited ingestion. Despite the tangible benefits applying soil models over...
The delineation of hydrological catchments and river networks is fundamental for hydrographic information, environmental analysis, modeling, decision-making. However, many existing datasets are limited in their spatial resolution, which can constrain ability to accurately represent localized processes such as floodplain dynamics soil erosion patterns. Building on the concepts new vector-based global network dataset by Lin et al. (2021), Catchment Characterisation Modelling (CCM) Joint...
Land degradation (LD) threatens soil health and ecosystems globally, which is why the European Commission formulated objective of transitioning towards healthy soils by reducing LD 2030. Water erosion, one most severe forms LD, influenced management direction. This because it affects roughness created tillage, seeding ridges, tramlines, which, in turn, can either exacerbate or mitigate erosion. Therefore, direction an important variable RUSLE-framework (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation)...
Land degradation (LD), which affects soil, vegetation, and water resources, poses serious threats to agricultural productivity, biodiversity, ecosystem functions. Here, we present a new approach assess LD at the farm level, specifically within Mediterranean olive orchards, leveraging modified Multidegradation Index (LMI) (Prăvălie et al., 2024) builds on framework established by European Union Soil Observatory (EUSO) (Panagos al. 2024). The identifies quantifies multiple...
Abstract After the successful mapping of gully erosion channels in 2018 Eurostat Land Use/Cover Area Frame (topsoil) statistical survey (LUCAS, n = 24,759 locations), methodology was further expanded across full LUCAS 2022 (n 399,591 locations). This expert-based assessment identifies presence or absence forms at each location. Its goal is to improve understanding geography EU and develop forecasting methods support soil health indicators proposed by new Directive on Soil Monitoring...
The crop cover-management (C-) factor in arable landscapes describes the soil erosion susceptibility associated with seasonally cultivated crops. Previous informatic and computational limitations have led many modelling studies to prescribe C-factor values assume spatial temporal stationarity. However, multiple influencing factors ranging from parcel-scale cultivation management regional-scale rainfall regimes motivate new methods capture this variation when identifying at-risk areas. Modern...
Testing and improving the capacity of soil erosion sediment delivery models to simulate response intra-annual dynamics climatic drivers disturbances (e.g., vegetation clearcutting, tillage events, wildfires) is critical understand intolerable loss catchment yields. Here, we approach trade-off between need for model simplicity temporally dynamic predictions by testing ability a low-complexity, spatially distributed (WaTEM/SEDEM), decompose 15-day yield. A standardised RUSLE parameterisation...