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Description

Soil erosion is the relocation of surface material and takes place in three steps: removal, transport and sedimentation. SEDER researches processes and mechanisms, factors and rates and develop knowledge to understand, foresee and control soil erosion.

SEDER is focussed on the effects of land use and management on soil erosion in order to develop strategies to reduce soil losses on degraded land. SEDER focuses on the erosion and runoff generation after forestland with special attention to forest fires affected-land and trail erosion, on agriculture land and on road and railway embankments.

Assessment, restoration and rehabilitation are the SEDER challenge. There is a need to restore the soil properties and functions, and for this we need to find the right managements to avoid non-sustainable soil erosion rates. SEDER initiated his experience in 2002 with Artemi Cerdà as main researcher. The number of publications of the research team reach more than 300 publications in international (peer-review) journals and books an the research is mainly focus on Mediterranean types ecosystems, but research in other Ecosystems is carried out in collaboration with research groups in Ethiopia, Iran, China, USA, The Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina or Romania.

Goals CT
  • The objective of SEDER is to quantify the soil and water losses on different climatic conditions and under different management. How the humans impact on soil and soil erosion processes is the key objective that will contribute to understand the soil degradation and erosion in agriculture, forest and road areas. 
  • SEDER pretends to develop new methodologies to characterize soil erosion processes and determine rates of soil losses. 
  • Assess soil erosion rates and runoff generation determine restoration and rehabilitation strategies.
  • Design new and sustainable managements to restore land affected by degradation and desertification processes.
Research lines
Management
  • CERDA BOLINCHES, ARTEMIO
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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Members
  • PEREZ ALBARRACIN, ANA
  • PI-Invest No Doctor Uv A1
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Non-UV research staff

Collaborator

  • César Azorín - Göteborg University (Suecia)
  • Erik C Brevick - Dickinson State University (EEUU)
  • Simone Di Prima - Università degli studi di Sassari (Italia)
  • Andrés García Díaz - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Antonio Giménez Morera - Universitat Politècnica de València 
  • Antonio Jordán López - Universidad de Sevilla
  • Saskia Keesstra - Wageningen University (Países Bajos)
  • Maria Estela Nadal Romero - Universidad de Zaragoza
  • Agata Novara - Università degli studi di Palermo (Italia) 
  • Marc Oliva - Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
  • Luis Parras Alcantara - Universidad de Córdoba
  • Paulo Pereira - Mykolo Romerio Univesitetas (Lituania)
  • Manuel Pulido Fernández - Universidad de Extremadura 
  • Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira - Centro de Estudos de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Sociedade (Portugal) 
  • Encarnación V Taguas Ruiz - Universidad de Córdoba 
Scientific production by UV researcher
  • CERDA BOLINCHES, ARTEMIO
    PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a Curs
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Associated structure
Contact group details
Soil Erosion and Degradation (SEDER)

Blasco Ibáñez Campus

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 28

46010 València (Valencia)

+34 963 864 237

Geolocation

www.uv.es/seder

artemio.cerda@uv.es

Contact people
  • CERDA BOLINCHES, ARTEMIO
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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