"Feschrift in honor of Professor Maria Sala"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Catchment dynamics in a Mediterranean mountain environment : the Vallcebre research basins (southeastern Pyrenees) 1, Hydrology / Francesc Gallart, Jérôme Latron and Pilar Llorens -- Catchment dynamics in a Mediterranean mountain environment : the Vallcebre research basins (southeastern Pyrenees) 2, Temporal and spatial dynamics of erosion and stream sediment transport / Francesc Gallart, J. Carles Balasch, David Regüés, Montse Soler and Xavier Castelltort -- Patterns and thresholds of runoff generation and sediment transport on some Mediterranean hillslopes / Adolfo Calvo-Cases, Carolina Boix-Fayos and Eva Arnau-Rosalen -- Repeated patterns of Quaternary discontinuous gullying at El Tormillo, Ebro Basin, Spain / Adrian M. Harvey and Mateo Gutiérrez-Elorza / The influence of soil saturation on the stability of abandoned agricultural hillslope terraces under Mediterranean climatic conditions / Ali Zgaier and Moshe Inbar -- The long-term effects on soil properties from a forest fire of varying intensity in a Mediterranean environment / Xavier Úbeda, Sara Bernia and Elisabeth Simelton -- Landscape disturbance and organic carbon in alluvium bordering steepland rivers, East Coast Continental Margin, New Zealand / Basil Gomez and Noel A. Trustrum -- A decade of sediment transport measurements in a large Mediterranean river (the Tordera, Catalan Ranges, NE Spain) / Ramon J. Batalla, Celso Garcia and Albert Rovira -- Upland gravel-bed rivers with low sediment transport / Michael Church and Marwan A. Hassan -- Maintenance of an obstruction-forced pool in a gravel-bed channel : streamflow, channel morphology, and sediment transport / Richard D. Woodsmith and Marwan A. Hassan / Hydrological effects of dams and water diversions on rivers of Mediterranean-climate regions : examples from California / G. Mathias Kondolf and Ramon J. Batalla -- The geomorphology and management of a dynamics, unstable gravel-bed river : the Feshie-Spey confluence, Scotland / Alan Werritty, Trevor B. Hoey and Andrew R. Black.

Maria Sala introduced experimental and field-based studies on soil and fluvial processes in Spain during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Research on this broad topic has grown remarkably worldwide since then. This title shows some of these advances and documents the latest research, although with a particularity: it gives special treatment to research on Mediterranean climate regions, an ever-present issue in Maria Sala's research career. It contains the latest research on slope and river processes with a special emphasis on rivers and catchments with a Mediterranean climate. Papers cover a gamut of topics describing research and applied studies, mainly in Spain, but also in Israel, the USA, Canada, the UK and New Zealand. The book examines natural and anthropogenic processes operating in drainage basins and includes coverage of current experimental and fieldwork investigations on soil erosion, river and catchment hydrology, suspended sediment transport and bedload dynamics in gravel-bed rivers, and present-day diagnosis and future key-paths for catchment and river management. * Examines the natural and anthropogenic processes operating in drainage basins and river channels, and covers current investigations on Process Geomorphology and Catchment Hydrology, including management issues * Topics covered include soil erosion, catchment hydrology, suspended sediment transport, bedload dynamics in gravel-bed rivers, and sediment yield * Emphasis is on the Mediterranean region.

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