Maria Burguet

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• PhD Geography
• PostDoc Position at Institute of Agricultural Sciences

Universal Soil Loss Equation USLE-based erosion models have been used extensively to complement erosion measurements, to understand the interactions of the different geophysical features into erosion processes and to assess adequate alternative management practices and scenarios analyses. Despite its proved usefulness on different land-uses around...

Soil water erosion is a serious problem, especially in agricultural lands. Among these, vineyards deserve attention, because they constitute for the Mediterranean areas a type of land use affected by high soil losses. A significant problem related to the study of soil water erosion in these areas consists in the lack of a standardized procedure of...

To optimize soil conservation strategies in catchments, it is required an accurate diagnosis of the areas contributing to soil erosion by using models such as SEDD (Sediment Delivery Distributed model). In this study, different calibration strategies of the SEDD model were explored to adapt its use in two olive catchments with different environment...

Time-lapse ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, combined with automated infiltration experiments, provide a non-invasive approach for investigating the distribution of infiltrated water within the soil medium and creating three-dimensional images of the wetting bulb. This study developed and validated an experimental protocol aimed at quantifyin...

Saturated soil hydraulic conductivity, Ks, data collected by ponding infiltrometer methods and usual experimental procedures could be unusable for interpreting field hydrological processes and particularly rainfall infiltration. The Ks values determined by an infiltrometer experiment carried out applying water at a relatively large distance from th...

The interpretation of the potential impacts of anthropogenic activities on water quality is essential in order to manage the suitability of land uses, particularly in the case of Eucalyptus plantations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the precipitation, interception, and evapotranspiration of Eucalyptus plantations at the catchment scale (719...

The increase in aridity and torrential events in semiarid areas predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to significantly affect their hydrological response and thus their associated nonpoint source pollution and erosive dynamics. This study quantifies rainfall-runoff patterns in a 6.1-ha olive orchard microcatchment i...

Vineyard is one of the main crops in the Mediterranean region and it forms, along with wheat and olive, what it is known as the ’Mediterranean triad’. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 2010), the European Union has 4.5 million hectares of land occupied by vineyards. Out of all, the Mediterranean region h...

To optimize soil conservation strategies in catchments, an accurate diagnosis of areas contributing to soil erosion using models such as SEDD (Ferro and Minacapilly, 1995) is required. In this study, different calibration strategies of the SEDD model were explored in two commercial olive microcatchments in Spain, Setenil (6.7 ha) and Conchuela (8 h...

Water erosion and associated offsite contamination are major environmental risks in many Mediterranean crops such as olives or vineyards (Beaufoy, 2001; Gómez et al., 2011). The use of cover crops has been prescribed as a mitigation measure for both problems because permanent cover crops have demonstrated to reduce sediment and agrochemical loads (...

Studying soil hydraulic properties is necessary for interpreting and simulating many hydrological processes having environmental and economic importance, such as rainfall partition into infiltration and runoff. The saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks, exerts a dominating influence on the partitioning of rainfall in vertical and lateral flow paths....

Soil erosion and land degradation are two of the major environmental problems in Spain, which affect the South and SouthEast of the peninsula. Therefore, it is essential to fully understand soil degradation processes so that solutions which will decrease -and ideally eliminate- that degradation can be provided. The general objective of this doctor...

Understanding soil erosion processes is the first step for designing and implementing effective soil conservation strategies. In agricultural areas, spatially in arid and semiarid conditions, water conservation is interlinked with soil conservation, and usually need to be addressed simultaneously to achieve success in their use by farmers. This is...

The aim of this work is to study the effects of a wildfire on water-extractable elements in ash from a Pinus pinaster forest located in Portugal. The pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Calcium (Ca2+), Magnesium (Mg2+), Sodium (Na+), Potassium (K+), Sodium and Potassium adsorption ratio (SPAR), Aluminium (Al3+), Manganese (Mn2+), Iron (Fe2+), Zinc (Z...

Ash thickness is a key variable in the protection of soil against erosion agents after planned and unplanned fires. Ash thickness measurements were conducted along two transects (flat and sloping areas) following a grided experimental design. In order to interpolate data with accuracy and identify the techniques with the least bias, several interpo...

A new technique to identify and assess the vegetation trapping efficiency in hillslopes has been used in this study. Hillslope vegetation is a key parameter to reduce soil erosion as it redistributes sediments along the slope and improves soil properties. It has been shown that hillslope vegetation captures eroded soil particles from the top of the...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) shows a considerable spatial variability at the field, farm or catchment scales. This complicates its use as an indicator for soil quality, and is an important drawback for the efficient evaluation of carbon sequestration schemes, or for the certification of carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils at these sca...

Ash thickness is a key variable in the protection of soil against erosion agents after planned and unplanned fires. Thicker ash provides better protection against raindrop impact and reduces the runoff response by retaining water and promoting water infiltration although little is known about the distribution and the evolution of the ash layer afte...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a key indicator of soil quality and a major factor for evaluating carbon sequestration schemes in forest and agricultural soils. However, at the farm or catchment scale SOC presents a large spatial variability which complicates the evaluation of soil quality (Gomez et al., 2009) and the certification of the potential fo...

Numerous studies of Soil Water Repellency (SWR) have been reported for various forest environments, particularly after wildfires, but the understanding of SWR in agricultural lands is still rather limited. As such, in this investigation, three study areas were selected in Cordoba (Southern Spain), with conventional tillage and permanent cover crop...

M. Burguet (1), E.V. Taguas(2), J.A. Gómez(1) (1)Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC).Av. Menéndez Pidal s/n Campus Alameda del Obispo Apartado 4084. 14080 Córdoba. (2)Department of Rural Engineering, University of Córdoba. 14014 Córdoba. Olive groves located in mountainous areas with steep slopes in the south of Spain, have been ident...

The microcatchment is a spatial scale which allows to evaluate and to quantify the erosive processes under conditions close to those perceived by farmers. In this work, soil erosion and runoff over six hydrological years (2005 and 2011) were monitored in an olive orchard microcatchment of 6.4 ha, where different management types were applied. The a...