Hydrological and erosive consequences of farmland abandonment in Europe, with special reference to the Mediterranean region–A review

JM García-Ruiz, N Lana-Renault - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment is a major problem in parts of Europe, particularly in mountain
areas and semiarid environments. In such places, farmland abandonment represents a …

Erosion in Mediterranean landscapes: Changes and future challenges

JM García-Ruiz, E Nadal-Romero, N Lana-Renault… - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
Intense erosion processes are widespread in the Mediterranean region, and include sheet
wash erosion, rilling, gullying, shallow landsliding, and the development of large and active …

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

E Wohl, G Brierley, D Cadol… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Connectivity describes the efficiency of material transfer between geomorphic system
components such as hillslopes and rivers or longitudinal segments within a river network …

A method for the assessment and analysis of the hydromorphological condition of Italian streams: The Morphological Quality Index (MQI)

M Rinaldi, N Surian, F Comiti, M Bussettini - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
A new index has been developed for the hydromorphological assessment of Italian rivers.
The method was designed to comply with the EU Water Framework Directive requirements …

Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: Opportunities and challenges

JM García-Ruiz, T Lasanta, E Nadal-Romero… - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains
have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of …

Effects of hydromorphological integrity on biodiversity and functioning of river ecosystems

A Elosegi, J Díez, M Mutz - Hydrobiologia, 2010 - Springer
River channels tend to a dynamic equilibrium driven by the dynamics of water and sediment
discharge. The resulting fluctuating pattern of channel form is affected by the slope, the …

[HTML][HTML] River widening in mountain and foothill areas during floods: Insights from a meta-analysis of 51 European Rivers

V Ruiz-Villanueva, H Piégay, V Scorpio… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
River widening, defined as a lateral expansion of the channel, is a critical process that
maintains fluvial ecosystems and is part of the regular functioning of rivers. However, in …

Channel adjustments and vegetation cover dynamics in a large gravel bed river over the last 200 years

F Comiti, M Da Canal, N Surian, L Mao, L Picco… - Geomorphology, 2011 - Elsevier
The timing and extent of the morphological changes that occurred in the last 200years in a
large gravel bed river (the Piave River, eastern Italian Alps) that was heavily impacted by …

Evolutionary trajectory of channel morphology and controlling factors in a large gravel-bed river

L Ziliani, N Surian - Geomorphology, 2012 - Elsevier
Interpretation of channel changes is not always straightforward since it requires a detailed
reconstruction of the evolutionary trajectory of channel morphology, a quantitative analysis …

Channel adjustments and alteration of sediment fluxes in gravel‐bed rivers of North‐Eastern Italy: potentials and limitations for channel recovery

N Surian, L Ziliani, F Comiti, MA Lenzi… - River research and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this paper is to explore possibilities and limitations of restoring physical
processes in five gravel‐bed rivers (Brenta, Piave, Cellina, Tagliamento and Torre Rivers) in …