Establishing a Holocene sediment budget for the river Dijle

Fluvial architecture of Belgian river systems in contrasting environments: implications for reconstructing the sedimentation history

“…Large quantities of soil have been eroded and deposited in colluvial and alluvial valleys caused by the intensive land use history (e.g. Notebaert et al, 2009b).…”

“…The construction of a sediment budget incorporating the different sinks and sources of sediment in a catchment may allow to further establish the link between environmental changes and sedimentary response (e.g. Trimble, 1999;Notebaert et al, 2009bNotebaert et al, , 2011a. Modelling results from the Dijle catchment show indeed the important influence of land use changes on soil erosion and colluviale and alluvial sediment deposition (Notebaert et al, 2011b).…”

Characterization and quantification of Holocene colluvial and alluvial sediments in the Valdaine Region (southern France)

“…Such long-term sediment budgets allow to understand how sediment cascades changes in response to environmental changes. In Europe, the majority of sediment budgets refers to timescales of a years to decades, while sediment budgets referring to timescales of millennia deal with catchment in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands (e.g., Hoffmann et al, 2007;Seidel and Mackel, 2007;de Moor and Verstraeten, 2008;Verstraeten et al, 2009b;Förster and Wunderlich, 2009;Notebaert et al, 2009;Fuchs et al, 2011;Stolz, 2011). Among these studies chosen budget elements vary and may range from sole quantifications of total floodplain storage (e.g., Stolz, 2011), to more detailed studies including different sink types (e.g., Macaire et al, 2002;Houben, 2008) and complex time-differentiated sediment budgets(e.g., Trimble, 2009;Verstraeten et al, 2009b;Notebaert et al, 2011a;Notebaert et al, 2013).…”

Sediment delivery across multiple spatio-temporal scales in an agriculture watershed of the Chinese Loess Plateau

“…Despite some criticism including practical difficulty in estimating gross erosion (e.g. Lane et al 1997) and the conceptual validity (Parsons et al 2006), SDR remains a practical approach for sediment load predictions at the watershed scale (Notebaert et al 2009;Vigiak et al 2011;Shi et al 2013;Shi et al 2014). SDR closely depends on the spatial and temporal scales over which sediment yield and gross erosion are measured (Lu et al 2005).…”