Impact of historical land use and soil management change on soil erosion and agricultural sustainability during the Anthropocene

T Vanwalleghem, JA Gómez, JI Amate, MG De Molina… - Anthropocene, 2017 - Elsevier
Since prehistoric times, farmers have faced the challenge of balancing the demand for
increasing food production from existing soil resources with conservation of these resources …

The history of human-induced soil erosion: Geomorphic legacies, early descriptions and research, and the development of soil conservation—A global synopsis

M Dotterweich - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a global synopsis about the geomorphic evidence of soil erosion in
humid and semihumid areas since the beginning of agriculture. Historical documents …

Soils disturbed by vegetation clearance and tillage

J Deák, A Gebhardt, H Lewis… - Archaeological soil and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter summarizes existing knowledge about possible micromorphological traces of
vegetation clearance and tillage, and their effects on soil formation processes, and …

High resolution gully erosion and sedimentation processes, and land use changes since the Bronze Age and future trajectories in the Kazimierz Dolny area (Nałęczów …

M Dotterweich, J Rodzik, W Zgłobicki, A Schmitt… - Catena, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of 40years of research on the gully system in the Doły
Podmularskie catchment (0.35 km² in size), which is situated in the south-western part of the …

Human induced soil erosion and gully system development in the Late Holocene and future perspectives on landscape evolution: The Myjava Hill Land, Slovakia

M Dotterweich, M Stankoviansky, J Minár, Š Koco… - Geomorphology, 2013 - Elsevier
In humid climate zones, like Central Europe, past soil erosion and gullying are strongly
connected with agricultural expansion, and extreme soil erosion events often play an …

[PDF][PDF] Historic milestones of human river uses and ecological impacts

G Haidvogl - … Management: Science for Governing Towards A …, 2018 - library.oapen.org
History has been acknowledged for 20 years as an important research element for river
management that has been applied, for example, to define reference conditions and assess …

Archaeopedology and chronostratigraphy of colluvial deposits as a proxy for regional land use history (Baar, southwest Germany)

J Henkner, JJ Ahlrichs, S Downey, M Fuchs, BR James… - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Soils are the basis of our food production, supplying plants with nutrients and water. Farming
leaves traces in the soil because cultivation can cause soil erosion. One result is the …

Soil erosion in a British watershed under climate change as predicted using convection-permitting regional climate projections

R Ciampalini, EJ Kendon, JA Constantine… - Geosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change can lead to significant environmental and societal impacts; for example,
through increases in the amount and intensity of rainfall with the associated possibility of …

[PDF][PDF] Interpretation of soil erosion in a Polish loess area using OSL, 137Cs, 210Pbex, dendrochronology and micromorphology–case study: Biedrzykowice site (s …

G Poręba, Z Śnieszko, P Moska, P Mroczek, I Malik - 2019 - intapi.sciendo.com
Loess areas used for agriculture are susceptible to soil erosion. The intensive process of soil
erosion in Polish loess areas began with the onset of the Neolithic and has continued …

Contribution to the reconstruction of central European fire history, based on the soil charcoal analysis of study sites in northern and central Germany

V Robin, O Nelle - Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2014 - Springer
Fire caused by humans played an important role in prehistoric clearance of woodland, which
was a prerequisite for the rise of agriculture since at least the Neolithic revolution. Therefore …