State-of-the-Art on Soil Erosion and Hydrological Connectivity
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 188
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; hydraulics; soil erosion; sedimentology; soil; rivers; soil and water conservation; environmental science
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Interests: hydrology; hydraulics; soil erosion; sedimentology; soil; soil and water conservation; environmental science
Interests: hydrology; hydraulics; soil erosion; sedimentology; soil; rivers; soil and water conservation; environmental science
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Interests: hydraulics; sediment transport; floods; remote sensing; hydro-morphodynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil erosion involves the detachment and transport of soil particles by rainfall and surface runoff, including concentrated flows in rills and gullies. When intensified by human activities, it reduces soil fertility by removing organic matter and nutrients. On-site impacts include the degradation of soil structure, the loss of productive topsoil, and reduced hydraulic conductivity, which limits infiltration and increases runoff. Off-site effects include channel sedimentation, reservoir capacity loss, and eutrophication. Accurate, repeatable measurements are essential for understanding erosion processes and validating predictive models. Moreover, understanding erosion dynamics at basin scale requires the consideration of sediment delivery processes, which are related to sediment connectivity and can be linked to hydrological connectivity.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to provide insights into different forms of soil erosion, their implications, and how they are affected by hydrological connectivity.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Experimental sites for measuring soil erosion at different spatial (plot, hillslope, basin) scales;
- Field experiments to study the soil erosion processes (interrill, rill and gully erosion);
- New methods and procedures for measuring soil erosion processes (e.g., three-dimensional photoreconstruction techniques, measurement of erosion features using aerial and terrestrial acquisition platforms, tracers);
- Sediment and hydrological connectivity modeling at different spatial scales.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Vito Ferro
Dr. Gaetano Guida
Dr. Alessio Nicosia
Dr. Michael Nones
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil erosion
- sediment yield
- erosion plot
- interill erosion
- rill erosion
- gully erosion
- sediment delivery processes
- sediment connectivity
- hydrological connectivity
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