Historical evolution of permanent gullies in the Myjava Hill Land, Slovakia

Stankoviansky, Miloš

doi:10.1016/s0341-8162(02)00167-4

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“…The runoff from these fields has higher velocities, which significantly increase erosion processes and fast runoff. This has resulted in the Myjava Hill Land being a part of the area with the highest density of permanent gullies in Slovakia (Stankoviansky, 2003). However, the rainfall-runoff modelling did not confirm the worsening of the runoff generation processes induced by these changes.…”

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“…This period was accompanied by further deforestation, which resulted historically in the lowest percentages of forested areas at the end of the 18 th century. The gradual loss of the forests attracted the settlers to farm on the areas acquired, which led to the creation of the typical land use pattern known from the first half of the 20 th century (Stankoviansky, 2003). This pattern was characterized by a dense network of tiny hamlets irregularly dispersed with a mosaic of small and narrow plots, which were predominantly tilled along contour lines.…”

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“…Nowadays, the catchment is characterized by an increased occurrence of floods (including flash floods), causing extensive soil erosion on large agricultural fields. The water erosion is responsible for the creation of gullies (Stankoviansky, 2001;2003;Danáčová, 2015) and the contamination of water bodies with pollutants, which enter them together with transported material.…”

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“…The Myjava River basin is typified by the formation of fast runoff processes, intensive soil erosion and muddy floods. Major stages of manmade interventions in this area include the medieval kopanitse colonization (formation of small patchy, rural settlements, deforestation, and the radical creation of agricultural fields), the socialist collectivization of agriculture, and the socio-economic changes (de-collectivization of agriculture) (Stankoviansky, 2003). A dense network of dry valleys concentrates the runoff, resulting in ephemeral gullying and the creation of muddy floods (Danáčová et al, 2015).…”

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The potential for land use change to reduce flood risk in mid-sized catchments in the Myjava region of Slovakia

Rončák

Lisovszki

Szolgay

et al. 2017

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Abstract:The effects of land use management practices on surface runoff are evident on a local scale, but evidence of their impact on the scale of a watershed is limited. This study focuses on an analysis of the impact of land use changes on the flood regime in the Myjava River basin, which is located in Western Slovakia. The Myjava River basin has an area of 641.32 km 2 and is typified by the formation of fast runoff processes, intensive soil erosion, and muddy floods. The main factors responsible for these problems with flooding and soil erosion are the basin's location, geology, pedology, agricultural land use, and cropping practices. The GIS-based, spatially distributed WetSpa rainfall-runoff model was used to simulate mean daily discharges in the outlet of the basin as well as the individual components of the water balance. The model was calibrated based on the period between 1997 and 2012 with outstanding results (an NS coefficient of 0.702). Various components of runoff (e.g., surface, interflow and groundwater) and several elements of the hydrological balance (evapotranspiration and soil moisture) were simulated under various land use scenarios. Six land use scenarios ('crop', 'grass', 'forest', 'slope', 'elevation' and 'optimal') were developed. The first three scenarios exhibited the ability of the WetSpa model to simulate runoff under changed land use conditions and enabled a better adjustment of the land use parameters of the model. Three other "more realistic" land use scenarios, which were based on the distribution of land use classes (arable land, grass and forest) regarding permissible slopes in the catchment, confirmed the possibility of reducing surface runoff and maximum discharges with applicable changes in land use and land management. These scenarios represent practical, realistic and realizable land use management solutions and they could be economically implemented to mitigate soil erosion processes and enhance the flood protection measures in the Myjava River basin. 95

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“…In the Myjava Hill Land (Slovakia), gully development is reported to have followed the beginning of most intensive colonization and forest clearance in the mid-16th century (Stankoviansky, 2003). For the both gullying phases detected from historical sources, rainfalls during the Little Ice Age are considered as the triggering mechanism.…”

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Mid-Holocene gullying indicating extreme hydroclimatic events in the centre of the Russian Plain

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Fuzeina²,

Karevskaya³

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Geogr. Pol.

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Abstract:At the Satino site in the center of the Russian Plain, major events of the Holocene erosion history are concentrated on sides of river valleys incised into smooth moraine landscape. Valley sides are dissected by Pleistocene gullies. Extraordinary for the Holocene was formation of four new permanent gullies. Three of them had appeared in the Late Atlantic -Early Subboreal time. One gully permitted direct dating of the fan base, which gave estimation of its appearance between 4.3-4.6 ka BP (cal). Two other gullies were constrained within the two intervals 5.2-5.5 and 5.9-6.2 ka BP (cal), based on assumed correlation with extreme runoff events dated over the area. After a long break of erosion, two of the gullies had exhibited the second phase of activity between 3.0-3.7 ka BP (cal). As in the Bronze Age no settlements are known in the study area and surroundings; human reinforcement of erosion was minor if any. The four intervals of extraordinary linear erosion on valley sides coincided with extremely high runoff events in streams of various sizes, which left prominent geomorphic and sedimentological features: meander arcs, coarse-grained alluvium, buried floodplain soils, etc. Altogether, this is considered to indicate a highly irregular climatic pattern in the area in the interval of 3.0-6.2 ka BP (cal) with several phases containing a series of extreme downpours, which had no analogs throughout the Holocene.

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Historical evolution of permanent gullies in the Myjava Hill Land, Slovakia

Cited by 75 publications

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Utilization of Historical Maps in the Land Use Change Impact Studies: A Case Study from Myjava River Basin

Utilization of Historical Maps in the Land Use Change Impact Studies: A Case Study from Myjava River Basin

The potential for land use change to reduce flood risk in mid-sized catchments in the Myjava region of Slovakia

Mid-Holocene gullying indicating extreme hydroclimatic events in the centre of the Russian Plain

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