期刊
EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
卷 47, 期 1, 页码 17-31出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5088
关键词
badlands; climate change; erosion; Global Change; hydrology; weathering
资金
- Consejeria de Economia, Innovacion, Ciencia y Empleo, Junta de Andalucia [RH2O-ARID, P18-RT-5130]
- European Union [834329-SEDILAND]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [PID2019-105983RB-100/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, RTI2018-101921-B-I00]
- Universidad de Almeria [HIPATIA-UAL]
Badlands are found worldwide in both dry and wet environments, and are characterized by intense erosion processes and extreme sediment yield. Climate change is expected to have direct and indirect effects on badland dynamics in the future, with potential improvements in water resources and vegetation growth.
Badlands are landforms that occur all over the World. In the Mediterranean region, badlands are found in both dry (arid and semi-arid) and wet (subhumid and humid) environments, and are characterized by complex hydro-geomorphological dynamics, high intense erosion processes and extreme sediment yield. Understanding the impact of Global Change is key to predict the on-site and off-site effects on badland dynamics, particularly its consequences on bedrock weathering, on sediment yield and delivery and on plant colonization. Here, conducting a systematic literature review, we analyzed an extensive database and identified the main climate-drivers affecting the hydro-geomorphological dynamics in Mediterranean badlands (based on non-metric multidimensional scaling and structural equation modeling analysis). Later, we examined the main impacts expected from climate change forecasting in the near future, and we explored the interactions between badlands response to climate variation. In Mediterranean badlands, weathering processes are mainly related to wetting-drying cycles and freeze-thaw cycles in dry and wet badlands, respectively. In both environments, rainfall amount appears as the main driver for runoff response, and rainfall amount and rainfall intensity for erosion dynamics. Future climate scenarios forecast a decrease in annual rainfall, number of rainfall events and frost days, and in soil moisture, and an increase in rainfall intensity. These changes will have direct hydro-geomorphological implications with direct and indirect effects on badland dynamics. This may result in a decrease in annual runoff in dry badlands, but the occurrence of more frequent extreme events would increase soil erosion and could negatively affect biological soil crust. In wet badlands, weathering and erosion processes may decrease, and a stabilization of the slopes, with consequently improved vegetation growth, may be expected. In addition, the forecasted changes must be taken into account, especially considering the possible off-site effects of these extreme environments.
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