The effects of natural reforestation on the hydrology, river morphology and sediment budget of the Dragonja River, SW Slovenia
Researcher: S.D. Keesstra
Current affiliation: Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Supervisors:
Collaborators:
- L. Globevnik - University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- G. Verstraeten - Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Duration: 2000-2005
Funding: VU University
Key research questions / objectives
- To reconstruct the changes in hillslope sediment contributions to the stream during progressive reforestation through modelled impacts of past changes in land use.
- To quantify the impact of forest re-establishment and extension on within-channel processes like bedload and suspended load production and transport as well as rates of floodplain sediment deposition.
- To reconstruct the changes in the floodplain sediment budget associated with past changes in land use and land cover.
Publications
- Keesstra, S.D., Bruijnzeel, L.A. & Van Huissteden, J. (2009). Meso-scale catchment sediment budgets: combining field surveys and modeling in the Dragonja catchment, SW Slovenia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 1547-1561.
- Keesstra, S.D., van Dam, O., Verstraeten, G. & van Huissteden, J. (2009). Changing sediment dynamics due to natural reforestation in the Dragonja catchment, SW Slovenia. Catena 78, 60-71.
- Keesstra, S.D. (2007). Impact of natural reforestation on floodplain sedimentation in the Dragonja basin, SW Slovenia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32, 49-65.
- Keesstra, S.D. (2006). The effects of natural reforestation on the hydrology, river geomorphology and sediment budget of the Dragonja River, SW Slovenia. Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 188p.
- Keesstra, S.D., van Huissteden, J.M., Vandenberghe, J., van Dam, O. de Gier, J. & Pleizier, I.D. (2005). Evolution of the morphology of the river Dragonja (SW Slovenia) due to land-use changes. Geomorphology 69, 191-207.