Author(s)

N. Dedios Mimbela, M.S. De la Orden, A.G. Ferrer-Forms & J.I. Quispe Becerra

Abstract

Soil erosion is a complex phenomenon of land degradation that is highly significant in a Mediterranean type environment (Lopez Bermudez 1996). Thus, the different characteristics of the physical environment and especially the historic soil and vegetation uses, are considered by the FAO (1977), to be the most relevant factors to be taken into account in this sort of study. Spain's case is especially worrying given that it ranks fourth on the list of European countries with the highest levels of surface erosion, with aro

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