“…When the erosion rate continuously surpasses tolerance for long periods, there is the risk of surmounting the trigger point and generating difficult to reverse processes that lead to desertification, especially in drylands (Meloni, Nakamura, Granzotti, & Martinez, 2019). Despite the existence of consistent recent works about erosive processes in the Brazilian drylands (de Araújo et al, 2006; Dos Santos, Andrade, Medeiros, Palácio, & Araújo Neto, 2017; Farias et al, 2019; Mamede, Araújo, Schneider, de Araújo, & Herrmann, 2012; Zhang et al, 2016), there is still a lack of information, mainly with regards to in situ measured data. This knowledge is necessary to understand the fundamental processes and to establish conservation policies (Zhao, Kondolf, et al, 2017) both for the present‐day situation, as well as for global‐change scenarios (Gaiser, Krol, Frischkorn, & de Araújo, 2003; Panagos et al, 2017).…”