Open AccessLa gestión de los usos del suelo como estrategia para mejorar la producción y la calidad del agua : resultados experimentales en el Pirineo Central español
Author(s) -
Jorge Ruiz Ruiz,
Teodoro Lasanta Martínez
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cuadernos de investigación geográfica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1697-9540
pISSN - 0211-6820
DOI - 10.18172/cig.1025
Subject(s) - hydrology (agriculture) , shrub , surface runoff , environmental science , land cover , forestry , geography , geomorphology , land use , geology , ecology , geotechnical engineering , biology
Different land-uses and plant covers yield a wide range of overland flow and sediment concentration. In the 'Aísa Valley" Experimental Station, located in the Central Spanish Pyrenees, information has been obtained on the hydromorphological functioning of both actual and traditional land-uses, confirming that farmland abandonment in steep slopes and the expansion of meadows and shrub cover represent a decrease in bothsediment yield and water availability at a basin scale. With this in mind the authors discuss possible land-use changes that contribute to improve the quality of water resources.