Agronomy,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(9), P. 2097 - 2097
Published: Sept. 14, 2024
The
agricultural
production
of
maize
(Zea
mays
L.)
increases
the
risk
water
erosion.
Perennial
crops
like
cup
plant
(Silphium
perfoliatum
offer
a
sustainable
alternative
to
produce
biomass
for
biogas
plants.
assessment
soil
conservation
measures
requires
calibrated
erosion
models
that
spatially
identify
processes.
These
support
decision-making
by
farmers
and
policymakers.
Input
parameters
physically
based
model
EROSION
3D
cultivation
were
established
in
field
study.
Rainfall
simulation
experiments
conducted
determine
input
parameter’s
skinfactor
surface
roughness.
results
showed
reduction
higher
infiltration
rates
resulting
skinfactors
11.5
June
0.75
post-harvest
(cup
plant)
compared
1.2
0.21
(maize).
With
extended
parameter
catalogue
simulations
rainfall
event
(64
mm).
sediment
budget
would
have
been
reduced
92.6%
through
growth
comparison
conventionally
grown
maize.
can,
therefore,
contribute
achieving
targets
outlined
European
Green
Deal
reducing
enhancing
health.
Land,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13(1), P. 116 - 116
Published: Jan. 21, 2024
Permanent
grasslands
(PG)
feature
in
the
European
rural
landscape
and
represent
a
major
agricultural
production
resource.
They
support
multiple
non-provisioning
ecosystem
services
(ES),
including
climate
regulation,
flood
control,
biodiversity,
pollination.
PG
are
at
risk
of
loss
or
degradation
due
to
land
use
management
changes.
The
objective
this
systematic
review
is
identify
main
economic
influences
shaping
maintenance
PG,
risks
opportunities
for
delivery
range
ES.
A
total
51
papers
were
included.
Relevant
policy
interventions
drivers
identified
relation
how
they
shape
EU
over
time
across
farming
systems,
countries,
biogeographic
zones.
high
reliance
on
public
payments
from
Common
Agricultural
Policy
(CAP),
with
uneven
impact
mitigating
losses
associated
ES
provisions,
was
identified,
which
needs
be
considered
ongoing
CAP
reform.
There
gap
literature
regarding
tipping
points
change.
Future
research
map
provisions
by
along
trade-offs
synergies,
link
policy.
substantive
challenges
maintaining
Europe’s
area
management,
must
addressed
through
EU-wide
instruments.
Agronomy,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(5), P. 1366 - 1366
Published: May 12, 2023
Grasslands
are
at
risk
of
degradation
due
to
unsustainable
management
practices
and
climate
change.
Here,
we
review
the
principal
soil
quality
indicators
(SQIs)
evaluate
sustainability
different
grassland
globally.
We
discuss
importance
SQI
assessment
Soil
Quality
Minimum
Dataset
(MDS)
specifically
in
context
grasslands.
then
two
potential
solutions,
first
which
is
adopting
grazing
management,
whereby
sustainable
plans
(GMPs)
offer
great
potential.
The
other
solution
development
adoption
novel
species,
may
improve
either
drought
resistance
or
infiltration
rates,
erosion
flooding.
Sustainable
can
promote
ecosystem
service
delivery
resilience
entire
anthropogenic
Hydrological Processes,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
39(3)
Published: March 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Hydrological
processes
of
mountainous
watersheds
commonly
impact
water
resource
supply
in
downstream
areas.
To
better
understand
how
re‐vegetation
affects
the
different
hydrological
pathways
watersheds,
we
investigated
their
change
at
various
temporal
scales
for
Xiaoluan
River
watershed,
a
typical
meso‐scale
watershed
featuring
plateau–mountain
transition
topography
northern
China.
For
non‐growing
season
from
2006
to
2020,
groundwater
discharge
and
wetting
terms
Horton
Index
significantly
increased,
recession
process
coefficient
(
k
)
was
considerably
prolonged.
We
suggest
that
snowmelt
were
responsible
this
change,
but
they
affected
differently.
That
is,
might
improve
storage
capacity
shallow
soil
layers
thereby
enhancing
recharge
discharge.
Meanwhile,
may
provide
available
recharging
discharging
watershed.
Because
reforestation
progresses
global
climate
continues,
more
complex
are
be
expected.
Therefore,
continuous
monitoring
detailed
investigations
subsurface
will
necessary
adaptive
management.
Hydrological Processes,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
39(4)
Published: April 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Floods
are
amplified
and
attenuated
by
features
processes
across
spatial
scales,
defined
here
as
flood
dynamics.
We
review
synthesise
these
influences
at
the
catchment,
river
network
reach
scales
a
means
of
integrating
understanding
controls
on
dynamics
identifying
key
questions
that
arise
because
differences
in
techniques
investigation
disciplinary
emphases
between
scales.
Catchment‐scale
include
catchment
area,
topography,
lithology,
land
cover,
precipitation,
antecedent
conditions
human
alterations
such
changing
cover.
Network‐scale
topology,
longitudinal
variations
geometry
successive
corridor
reaches,
lakes
wetlands
including
flow
regulation
cumulative
changes
channel‐floodplain
connectivity
multiple
reaches
network.
Reach‐scale
water
sources,
artificial
levees,
channelisation,
bank
stabilisation,
to
floodplain
cover
drainage,
dike
operation,
process‐based
restoration
urban
stormwater
management.
Our
synthesis
relevant
literature
suggest
relative
importance
varies
Hillslope
response
may
dominate
hydrograph
characteristics
smaller
catchments,
for
example,
whereas
exert
progressively
stronger
with
increasing
size.
Scale‐specific
advances
dynamics,
rainfall‐runoff
analyses
movements
from
uplands
into
channel
networks
(catchment‐scale),
along
(network‐scale)
investigations
biophysical
feedbacks
hydraulic
roughness
(reach‐scale),
have
largely
contributed
but
there
remain
important
disconnects
diverse
bodies
research
outstanding
related
effects
