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Badlands dynamics in a context of global change
Badlands Dynamics in the Context of Global Change presents the newest ideas concerning badland formation and relates them to the larger context of global change. The book provides an overview of badland landforms and covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics, such as runoff generation, erosion processes and rates, the potential for modeling badland systems, and emerging technologies in research. It is an ideal resource for geomorphologists, physical geographers and soil scientists interested in this terrain and how it relates to land degradation in other environments.
Front Cover; Badland Dynamics in the Context of Global Change; Badland Dynamics in the Context of Global Change; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 -- Perspectives on Badland Studies in the Context of Global Change; 1. INTRODUCTION: BADLANDS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; 2. CURRENT STUDIES OF BADLANDS: BRIEF BACKGROUND; 3. FUTURE RESEARCH QUESTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 2 -- The Origin of Badlands; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. CLIMATE DISTRIBUTION OF BADLANDS; 3. BADLAND-SHAPING PROCESSES; 4. BADLAND-INITIATION PATTERNS AND TRIGGERING FACTORS
4.1 BADLAND LITHOLOGY4.2 TECTONIC FACTORS; 4.3 CHANGES AND FLUCTUATIONS IN CLIMATE CONDITIONS; 4.4 EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS; 4.5 HUMAN IMPACT; 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 3 -- The Role of Lithology: Parent Material Controls on Badland Development; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MAIN BADLAND MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; 2.1 GRAIN SIZE; 2.2 CLAY MINERALOGY; 2.2.1 The Impact of Different Land Uses on Clay Dispersivity; 2.3 CONTENT OF ORGANIC CARBON; 2.4 SODIUM ADSORPTION RATIO AND EXCHANGEABLE SODIUM PERCENTAGE; 2.5 PHYSICAL MATERIAL PROPERTIES
2.6 RELATION OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MATERIAL PROPERTIES3. INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR; 3.1 ARID REGIONS; 3.2 SEMIARID REGIONS; 3.3 SUBHUMID REGIONS; 3.4 HUMID REGIONS; 3.5 THE ROLE OF SLOPE ASPECT; 3.6 TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES; 4. WEATHERING PROFILES AND STABILIZATION OF BADLAND MATERIALS; 4.1 WEATHERING PROFILES ON BADLAND MATERIALS; 4.1.1 Case Study 1: Dinosaur Park Badlands, Canada; 4.1.2 Case Study 2: Upper Orcia Valley (Italy); 4.2 NATURAL GEOSTABILIZATION OF BADLAND MATERIAL; 5. THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES ON BADLAND SLOPE DENUDATION PROCESSES
5.1 RILL AND GULLY DEVELOPMENT5.2 CONNECTIVITY AND RILL EVOLUTION; 5.3 RILLS AND TECTONICS; 5.4 PIPING INITIATION; 5.5 CALANCHI AND BIANCANE; 5.6 LANDSLIDING; 6. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 4 -- Badlands and the Dynamics of Human History, Land Use, and Vegetation Through Centuries; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE STUDY SITE; 2.1 BIANCANA BADLANDS: A FIELD LABORATORY; 2.2 PRESENT VEGETATION; 2.2.1 Remnants of Biancana Badlands Are Small Islands in an Agricultural Landscape in Need of Restoration; 2.2.2 Vegetation Succession; 2.3 SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND BIANCANA BADLAND GENERATION
2.4 SEDIMENTATION RATE AT THE DELTA OF THE OMBRONE RIVER2.5 CLIMATE; 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS; 3.1 PLANT SPECIES FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; 3.2 DENUDATION RATE IN THE LEONINA BADLANDS; 3.3 POPULATION ESTIMATION; 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; 4.1 INTERACTION BETWEEN VEGETATION AND SOIL/SEDIMENT: HOW EROSION IS LIMITED BY PLANT; 4.1.1 Plant Functional Traits; 4.2 ESTIMATING THE DENUDATION RATE OF THE LEONINA BIANCANAS; 4.3 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE OF THE LEONINA BADLANDS; 5. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 5 -- Runoff Generation in Badlands; 1. INTRODUCTION
editors, Estela Nadal-Romero, Juan F. Martínez-Murillo, Nikolaus J. Kuhn.