Water erosion aspects of land degradation neutrality to landscape planning tools at national scale

Pena, Selma B.; Abreu, Maria Manuela; Magalhães, Manuela R.; Cortez, N.

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114093

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“…marshes. This soil evaluation was performed for mainland Portugal (Leitão et al, 2013), and it is similar to the concept of soil quality (Pena et al, 2020). These areas must be allocated to agriculture, wherever possible, providing good management of the soil and of the natural resources.…”

Section: Firelan Network Componentsmentioning

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“…These soil erosion risks should be prevented with the appropriate land use cover and, if needed, with techniques to promote water in ltration and erosion reduction. The soil erosion risk map was based on the potential soil erosion calculated through erodibility (K), erosivity (R), and the topographic factor (LS) of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (Pena et al, 2020). These areas also contribute to re resilience if they have suitable land use cover.…”

Section: Firelan Complementary Areas Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

Magalhães

Cunha

Pena

et al. 2021

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This paper explores the role of landscape planning as a tool for rural fire prevention. It presents a methodology for a fire resilient and sustainable landscape model (FIRELAN) that articulates the ecological and cultural components in a suitable and multifunction land-use plan. FIRELAN is a conceptual and ecologically based model that recognizes river basin’ land morphology, microclimate, and species combustibility as the fundamental factors that determine fire behavior and landscape resilience, along with the ecological network (EN) for achieving ecological sustainability of the landscape. The model is constituted by the FIRELAN Network and the Complementary Areas. This network ensures the effectiveness of discontinuities in the landscape with less combustible land-uses. It also functions as a fire-retardant technique and protection of wildland-urban interface (WUI). This model is applied to municipalities from Portugal's center region, a simplified landscape severely damaged by recurrent rural fires. The results show that land-use and tree species composition should change drastically, whereas about 72% of the case study needs transformation actions. This requires a significant increase of native or archaeophytes species, agricultural areas, landscape discontinuities and the restoration of biodiversity in Natura 2000 areas. The EN components are 79% of the FIRELAN N area, whose implementation ensures soil and water conservation, biodiversity, and habitats. This paper contributes to the discussion of the Portuguese rural fires planning framework, highlighting the role of this model implementation towards a new landscape by giving explicit indications of adequate land-uses in rural areas. The FIRELAN model can be replicated in any situation.

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Section: Firelan Network Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Firelan Complementary Areas Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

Magalhães

Cunha

Pena

et al. 2021

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“…Also, the practice of prescribed fire and the use of biocides are severely detrimental to soil quality due to the destruction they cause of their biome. The issue of erosion should be addressed in the presence of soil erosion maps [50] in order to propose the best land cover to provide pedogenesis and water infiltration. In the absence of these maps, it is well known that, among the factors involved in erosion, the slope is decisive, so depending on the soil types and the evidence of erosion, it is necessary to evaluate which slopes from which erosion control techniques should be programmed.…”

Section: Soil Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial and Temporal Variability Regarding Forest: From Tree to the Landscape

Carvalho¹,

Magalhães²,

Pena³

2020

Spatial Variability in Environmental Science - Patterns, Processes, and Analyses [Working Title]

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Spatial and temporal variability in forest has become a topic attracting great attention regarding the role of the forest ecosystems in biogeochemical cycles, climate change and biological diversity and in human society. Advances in the natural sciences have brought insights into and a better understanding about the patterns and processes at different spatial and temporal scales. At the same time, this supports a better management of the forest ecosystems and landscapes. Variability from the tree level to the landscape is addressed. Tree characteristics and functions, forest stand dynamics and ecological succession to forest landscape ecology are put together, considering their interrelations and dependencies. Managing forest stands and variability at different scales is described and discussed, including the scope of sustainability. An evaluation of forest and landscape characteristics in Portugal is performed with propositions considering these different elements.

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“…The activity of soil erosion involves detachment of material by two processes: raindrop impact and flow traction [1]. Scholars discussed soil erosion by water, emphasising the development or assessment of various models, targeted to soil erosion predictions on a local or wider scale [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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A European-Scale Investigation of Soil Erosion Threat to Subsurface Archaeological Remains

2020

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This communication emanates from the lack of a European-scale study for investigating the potential threats that subsurface archaeological remains face today due to soil loss by water. This research analyses the impact of soil loss on potential subsurface archaeological evidence by integrating open geospatial datasets deriving from two pertinent European studies. The first study's dataset is related to soil erosion (soil loss provoked by water activity), which was reclassified into three groups alluding the level of threat on potential subsurface archaeological contexts, as follows:(1) areas presenting soil loss from 0 until 5 t/h per year, which are characterised as low threat areas;(2) areas presenting soil loss from 5 until 10 t/h per year, which are characterised as moderated threat; and (3) areas presenting soil loss beyond 10 t/h per year, which are considered as high-risk areas. The second study's dataset refers to the capacity of soils to preserve specific archaeological materials, classified in four categories based on the properties of the archaeological material (bones, teeth, and shells (bones); organic materials (organics); metals (Cu, bronze, and Fe) (metals); and stratigraphic evidence (strati). Both datasets were imported into a Geographical Information System (GIS) for further synthesis and analysis, while the average threat of soil loss per year was evaluated in a country level (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) level 0). The overall results show that approximately 10% of European soils that potentially preserve archaeological remains are in high threat due to soil loss, while similar patterns-on a European level-are found for areas characterised with moderate to high risk from the soil loss. This study is the first attempt to present a proxy map for subsurface cultural material under threat due to soil loss, covering the entire European continent.

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Water erosion aspects of land degradation neutrality to landscape planning tools at national scale

Cited by 51 publications

References 33 publications

FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

FIRELAN | An Ecologically Based Planning Model Towards a Fire Resilient and Sustainable Landscape. A Case Study in Center Region of Portugal

Spatial and Temporal Variability Regarding Forest: From Tree to the Landscape

A European-Scale Investigation of Soil Erosion Threat to Subsurface Archaeological Remains

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