Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 2

166. Erosion in Basin Geosystems of the Middle Volga (from a Landscape Analysis Perspective)

  • Author:
  • Oleg Yermolaev
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 54 to 54

(Sediment Transfer through the Fluvial System – Proceedings of a Symposium held in Moscow, August 2004 – IAHS Publication 288, 2004, pp. 60–66).

Abstract

Human-induced erosion and accumulation processes on agricultural hillslopes have a number of principal differences from natural erosion. Together with substantially higher rates of the processes, anthropogenic erosion creates a new and higher-level spatial organization of hillslope fluvial geosystems. From the focus-areal type of spatial pattern those transform into belts comprising anisotropic groups of vectorial-organized structures acquiring emergent properties. As a consequence, quantitative evaluation of this kind erosion should be conducted separately from its natural analogue.

Keywords

Basin erosion, Landscape, Middle volga, Neural network, Regionalization, Regressive model