We use the hybrid modeling laboratory of the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics (MedLanD) Project to simulate barranco incision in eastern Spain under different scenarios of natural and human environmental change. We carry out a series of modeling experiments set in the Rio Penaguila valley of northern Alicante Province. The MedLanD Modeling Laboratory (MML) is able to realistically simulate gull...

Permanent grasslands are widely recognized for their role in protecting the landscape against soil erosion and flooding. However, this has not yet been comprehensively quantified. Also, degradation of is accelerating at an alarming pace, leading to runoff generation. This study aims (i) quantify flooding mitigation effect permanent EU UK, compared other land uses; (ii) review all generating pro...

Badlands and gullied areas are among those geomorphic environments with the highest erosion rates worldwide. Nevertheless, records of their evolution and their relations with anthropogenic land transformation are scarcer. Here we combine historical data with aerial photographs and tree-ring records to reconstruct the evolution of a badland in a Mediterranean environment of Central Spain. Histor...

Erosion is the main threat to sustainable water and soil management in Morocco. Located Souss-Massa watershed, rural municipality of El Faid remains an area where gully erosion a major factor involved degradation flooding. The aim this study predict spatial distribution at scale evaluate predictive capacity three prediction methods (frequency ratio (FR), logistic regression (LR), random forest ...