%0 Journal Article
%A Ballesteros Cánovas, Juan Antonio
%A Bodoque del Pozo, José María
%A Lucía Vela, Ana
%A Martín Duque, José Francisco
%A Díez Herrero, Andrés
%A Ruiz Villanueva, Virginia
%A Rubiales Jiménez, Juan Manuel
%A Génova Fúster, Mª del Mar
%T Dendrogeomorphology in badlands: Methods, case studies and prospects
%D 2012
%@ 0341-8162
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43654
%X Soil and vegetation are interacting factors controlling erosion. Soil degradation processes may affect the normaltree and shrub development and inversely, vegetation can modulate the velocity and intensity of soil developmentor denudation. A dendrogeomorphological approach can be used to study these interactions, allowing toobtain a date and estimate mean or specific erosion rates. This is especially useful in an unrecorded badlandsand gullied environments,where the scarce vegetationmay be the only proxy available to quantify the differentgeomorphic processes which have occurred. This paper provides a fundamental review of thedendrogeomorphological methodology applied to erosion measurement in badlands. Focusing on the responseof the vegetation to the geomorphic processes, this paper: (a) describes themethodology developed to estimateerosion rates with exposed roots; (b) shows newadvances through case studies; and finally, (c) discusses futurelines of research to reduce methodological uncertainties and for making dendrogeomorphology more widelyapplicable.
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