Soils of the Luxembourg Lias Cuesta Landscape

Cammeraat, Erik; Sevink, J.; Hissler, C.; Juilleret, Jérôme; Jansen, Boris; Kooijman, A.M.; Pfister, Laurent; Verstraten, J.M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65543-7_6

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“…and 440 m a.s.l., respectively, while the catchment outlet in Useldange has an altitude of 245 m a.s.l. (Martínez-Carreras et al, 2012;Pfister et al, 2018). The Luxembourg Ardennes are characterised by steep inclined valleys with forested hillslopes and plateaus with agricultural land use.…”

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“…The Sandstone areas are characterised by steep hillslopes which are dominantly forested and in the lower part used as grassland and for agriculture (Kaplan et al, 2020a). Soils in the Attert catchment are linked to lithology, land cover and land use (Cammeraat et al, 2018). Soils in the slate geology are dominated by stony silty soils, while the soils in Keuper Marls comprise silty clayey texture and the Luxembourg Sandstone region is largely covered by sandy and silty soils (Müller et al, 2016).…”

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Event controls on intermittent streamflow in a temperate climate

Kaplan

Blume

Weiler

2021

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Abstract. Intermittent streams represent a substantial part of the worldwide stream network and their occurrence is expected to increase due to climate change. Thus, it is of high relevance to provide detailed information of the temporal and spatial controls of streamflow intermittency to support management decisions. This study presents an event-based analysis of streamflow responses in intermittent streams in a meso-scale catchment with temperate climate. According to the streamflow responses, events were classified into flow or no-flow classes. Response controls like precipitation, soil moisture, and temperature were used as predictors in a random forest model to identify temporal controls of streamflow intermittency at the event-scale. Soil moisture was revealed as the most important predictor in the catchment. However, different patterns of predictor importance were found among the three dominant geologies in the catchment. Streamflow responses in the slate geology were controlled by soil moisture in the shallow and deep soil layers, while streamflow in the marl geology was primarily controlled by the soil moisture in the upper soil layer. Streamflow responses in catchments covering both marls and sandstone were dependent on soil moisture whereas streamflow in the only catchment with pure sandstone geology depended on precipitation characteristics. In both the slate and marl geology, streamflow intermittency also showed a relationship with seasonal fluctuations of soil temperature, probably as a proxy-variable of seasonal changes in evapotranspiration as well as an indicator of freezing conditions.

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Event controls on intermittent streamflow in a temperate climate

Kaplan

Blume

Weiler

2021

Preprint

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“…Cambisols dominate the schists area, whereas Stagnosols and Planosols are the dominant types on marls. Leptosols, Arenosols and Podzols characterize the Luxembourg red sandstone (Cammeraat et al, 2018). Land cover in the basin consists of farmland, grasslands and forested areas (Fig.…”

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Temporal and spatial variability of terrestrial diatoms at the catchment scale: controls on communities

Foets

Wetzel

Teuling

et al. 2020

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Diatoms are generally regarded as inhabitants of water bodies. However, numerous taxa are able to survive and reproduce in a variety of non-aquatic ecosystems. Although terrestrial diatoms are discussed extensively in the literature, most of those studies covered floristic aspects and few information exists on their ecology. This lack of knowledge thwarts their potential use as environmental markers in various applications. As a way forward, we investigated the seasonal patterns and the role of different disturbances on the community composition. We collected soil diatom samples in 16 sites across the Attert River basin (Luxembourg) every 4 weeks for a period of 14 months. Our results indicate that forests create a stable microhabitat for diatoms and that temporal variation of the diatom communities is mainly controlled by farming practices rather than seasonal changes in environmental variables. We also found out that communities need one to 2 months to reestablish a new, stable community after a significant change in the environment. We were able to confirm the applicability of the Pollution-Sensitivity Index (IPS) to identify anthropic disturbances.

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“…Besides information on streamflow velocity, image-based approaches can also be used to measure water level. Noncontact liquid level measurements using computer vision have been proposed by Chakravarthy et al (2002) for fuel tank application. Shin et al (2007) developed a stage measurement method based on images of a gauging staff in a stream.…”

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Monitoring ephemeral, intermittent and perennial streamflow: a dataset from 182 sites in the Attert catchment, Luxembourg

Kaplan

Sohrt

Blume

et al. 2019

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. The temporal and spatial dynamics of streamflow presence and absence is considered vital information to many hydrological and ecological studies. Measuring the duration of active streamflow and dry periods in the channel allows us to classify the degree of intermittency of streams. We used different sensing techniques including time-lapse imagery, electric conductivity and stage measurements to generate a combined dataset of presence and absence of streamflow within various nested sub-catchments in the Attert catchment, Luxembourg. The first sites of observation were established in 2013 and successively extended to a total number of 182 in 2016 as part of the project Catchments As Organized Systems (CAOS). Temporal resolution ranged from 5 to 15 min intervals. Each single dataset was carefully processed and quality controlled before the time interval was homogenised to 30 min. The dataset provides valuable information of the dynamics of a meso-scale stream network in space and time. This can be used to test and evaluate hydrologic models but also for the assessment of the intermittent stream ecosystem in the Attert basin. The dataset presented in this paper is available at the online repository of the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ, https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2019.010, Kaplan et al., 2019).

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Soils of the Luxembourg Lias Cuesta Landscape

Cited by 7 publications

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Event controls on intermittent streamflow in a temperate climate

Event controls on intermittent streamflow in a temperate climate

Temporal and spatial variability of terrestrial diatoms at the catchment scale: controls on communities

Monitoring ephemeral, intermittent and perennial streamflow: a dataset from 182 sites in the Attert catchment, Luxembourg

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