Soil water erosion on Mediterranean vineyards: A review

M Prosdocimi, A Cerdà, P Tarolli - Catena, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil water erosion on cultivated lands represents a severe threat to soil resources in the
world, and especially in Mediterranean areas, due to their topographic, edaphic and climatic …

Management of service crops for the provision of ecosystem services in vineyards: A review

L Garcia, F Celette, C Gary, A Ripoche… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Service crops are crops grown with the aim of providing non-marketed ecosystem
services, ie differing from food, fiber and fuel production. Vineyard soils face various …

Effects of rainfall intensity, underlying surface and slope gradient on soil infiltration under simulated rainfall experiments

J Huang, P Wu, X Zhao - Catena, 2013 - Elsevier
Knowledge of infiltration patterns and process is very important in understanding and
managing slope hydrological processes, crop irrigation, soil erosion, and so on. This paper …

Estimation of soil clay and calcium carbonate using laboratory, field and airborne hyperspectral measurements

P Lagacherie, F Baret, JB Feret, JM Netto… - Remote Sensing of …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper examines how reflectance spectrometry used in the laboratory to estimate clay
and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) soil contents can be applied to field and airborne …

Long-term monitoring of soil management effects on runoff and soil erosion in sloping vineyards in Alto Monferrato (North–West Italy)

M Biddoccu, S Ferraris, F Opsi, E Cavallo - Soil and Tillage Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Long-term runoff and soil erosion data have been collected from differently managed field-
scale vineyard plots within the “Tenuta Cannona Experimental Vine and Wine Center of …

Quantitative comparison of initial soil erosion processes and runoff generation in Spanish and German vineyards

JR Comino, T Iserloh, T Lassu, A Cerdà… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to enable a quantitative comparison of initial soil erosion
processes in European vineyards using the same methodology and equipment. The study …

Spatial and temporal changes to the water regime of a Mediterranean vineyard due to the adoption of cover cropping

F Celette, R Gaudin, C Gary - European Journal of Agronomy, 2008 - Elsevier
The use of cover cropping is currently increasing in vineyards but its development remains
hampered in Mediterranean regions because of the possibility of severe competition for …

Scale effect in USLE and WEPP application for soil erosion computation from three Sicilian basins

E Amore, C Modica, MA Nearing, VC Santoro - Journal of Hydrology, 2004 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of soil erosion due to water is very important in several environmental
contexts, such as the assessment of potential soil loss from cultivated lands and the …

Competition for nitrogen in an unfertilized intercropping system: The case of an association of grapevine and grass cover in a Mediterranean climate

F Celette, A Findeling, C Gary - European Journal of Agronomy, 2009 - Elsevier
Cover cropping is currently increasing in vineyards as it provides solutions to some of the
problems encountered in vine growing. However, its development is still hampered in …

Temporal variability of soil management effects on soil hydrological properties, runoff and erosion at the field scale in a hillslope vineyard, North-West Italy

M Biddoccu, S Ferraris, A Pitacco, E Cavallo - Soil and Tillage Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil management in vineyard inter-rows has a great influence on soil hydraulic conductivity
and bulk density, and, consequently, on runoff and soil erosion processes at the field scale …