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Water and sediment dynamics in bench-terraced agricultural steeeplands in West Java, Indonesia

Researcher: Albert I.J.M. van Dijk
Current affiliation: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Supervisors:

• I. Simmers - VU University
• L.A. Bruijnzeel - VU University

Duration: 1997-2002
Funding: The Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO), grant no. W76-193

Research questions

• What are the rainfall interception and transpiration rates of mixed rainfed upland crops?
• What are the dominant erosion processes on bench-terraced hillsides and how much runoff and sediment do these generate?
• How do different agronomic and soil conservation scenarios affect surface runoff and soil loss from bench-terraced hillsides?

Project publications

• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Meesters, A.G.C.A., Schellekens, J, and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). A two-parameter rainfall depth-intensity distribution applied to runoff and erosion modelling. Journal of Hydrology 300, 155-177.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Vertessy, R.A., and Ruijter, J. (2005). Runoff and sediment generation on bench-terraced hillsides: measurements and up-scaling of a field-based model. Hydrological Processes 19, 1667-1685.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2005). Key controls and scale effects on sediment budgets: recent findings in agricultural upland Java, Indonesia. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 292: 24-32.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Schellekens, J. (2004). Micrometeorology and water use of mixed crops in upland West Java, Indonesia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 100, 59-72.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004b). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces. 2. An event-based erosion process model. European Journal of Soil Science 55, 317-334.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2004a). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces. 1. An event-based model of rainfall infiltration and surface runoff. European Journal of Soil Science 55, 299-316.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., Vernimmen, R.R.E. (2004). Environmental benefits of planting fast-growing trees on eroding cropland in Java. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 279, 73-77.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2003). Terrace erosion and sediment transport model: a new tool for soil conservation planning in bench-terraced steeplands. Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software 18, 839-850.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Wiegman, S.E. (2003). Measurements of rain splash on bench terraces in a humid tropical steepland environent. Hydrological Processes 17, 513-535.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Eisma, E. (2003a). A methodology to study rain splash and wash processes under natural rainfall, Hydrological Processes 17,153-167.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Meesters, A.G.C.A., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2002b). Exponential distribution theory and the interpretation of splash detachment and transport experiments. Soil Science Society of America Journal 66, 1466-1474.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Rosewell, C.J. (2002a). Rainfall intensity - rainfall kinetic energy relationships: a critical literature appraisal. Journal of Hydrology 261, 1-23.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2002). Water and sediment dynamics in bench-terraced agricultural steeplands in West Java, Indonesia.PhD Thesis, Vrije Universiteit, 384 pp.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2001b). Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 2. Model validation for a tropical upland mixed cropping system. Journal of Hydrology 247, 239-262.
• Van Dijk, A.I.J.M., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2001a). Modelling rainfall interception by vegetation of variable density using an adapted analytical model. Part 1. Model description. Journal of Hydrology 247, 230-238.

Selected related publications

• Bruijnzeel, L.A., Van Eijk, B., and Edi Purwanto (1998). Runoff and soil loss from bench terraces in upland West Java, Indonesia and implications for process modelling. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication no. 249, 211-220.
• Purwanto, E., and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (1998). Soil conservation on rainfed bench terraces in upland West Java, Indonesia: towards a new paradigm. Advances in GeoEcology 31, 1267-1274.
• Bruijnzeel, L.A., and Critchley, W.R.S. (1996). A new approach towards quantifying contributions of runoff and eroded sediment from bench-terraces in humid tropical steeplands and its application in South-Central Java, Indonesia. pp. 921-937 in M.G. Anderson & S.M. Brooks (editors.), Advances in Hillslope Processes, Volume 2. J. Wiley, Chichester.