Rehabilitation of degraded dryland ecosystems–review

E Yirdaw, M Tigabu, AAM Monge - Silva Fennica, 2017 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Land degradation is widespread and a serious threat affecting the livelihoods of 1.5 billion
people worldwide of which one sixth or 250 million people reside in drylands. Globally, it is …

Modelling gully-erosion susceptibility in a semi-arid region, Iran: Investigation of applicability of certainty factor and maximum entropy models

A Azareh, O Rahmati, E Rafiei-Sardooi… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gully erosion susceptibility map** is a fundamental tool for land-use planning aimed at
mitigating land degradation. However, the capabilities of some state-of-the-art data-mining …

A watershed moment for western US dams

AE East, GE Grant - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The summer of 2023 is a notable time for water‐resource management in the western
United States: Glen Canyon Dam, on the Colorado River, turns 60 years old while the …

Assessment of the gully erosion susceptibility using three hybrid models in one small watershed on the Loess Plateau

Z Wang, G Zhang, C Wang, S **: application of novel hybridization of rotation forests (RF) and Java decision trees (J48)
LJ Liang, H Cui, A Arabameri, A Arora… - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
In this study, we presented a novel hybrid artificial intelligence method for landslide
susceptibility map** (LSM) in the Kalaleh Watershed, Golestan Province, Iran. This …

Aeolian-fluvial interactions in the Yellow River Basin, China: Insights from sedimentary characteristics and provenance of the sedimentary sequences

W Li, H Qian, P Xu, K Hou, Q Zhang, W Qu, W Ren… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding environmental changes requires the characterization of potential interactions
between aeolian and fluvial systems. This study aimed to identify the sedimentary …

The effects of topographic surveying technique and data resolution on the detection and interpretation of geomorphic change

A Kasprak, ND Bransky, JB Sankey, J Caster… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Change detection of high resolution topographic data is commonly used in river valleys to
quantify reach-and site-scale sediment budgets by estimating the erosion/deposition …

Do topographic changes tell us about variability in aeolian sediment transport and dune mobility? Analysis of monthly to decadal surface changes in a partially …

J Caster, JB Sankey, TT Sankey, A Kasprak… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Vegetation and biological soil crust (biocrust) cover can have a stabilizing effect on dunes by
fixing sediment in-place and increasing surface roughness, thus limiting dune mobility …

Interactions between fluvial and eolian geomorphic systems and processes: examples from the Sahara and Australia

M Williams - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
The remains of once integrated drainage systems are still discernible in many of the hot
deserts of the world. Some of these date back to the Mesozoic, as in arid Western Australia …

Surprise and opportunity for learning in Grand Canyon: the Glen Canyon dam adaptive management program

TS Melis, CJ Walters, J Korman - Ecology and Society, 2015 - JSTOR
With a focus on resources of the Colorado River ecosystem below Glen Canyon Dam, the
Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program has included a variety of experimental …