Gerard Govers
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
448 Papers
2.9K Citations
Gerard Govers is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Erosion & Surface runoff. The author has an hindex of 91, co-authored 447 publications. Previous affiliations of Gerard Govers include The Catholic University of America & Catholic University of Leuven.
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Papers
The European Soil Erosion Model (EUROSEM): A dynamic approach for predicting sediment transport from fields and small catchments.
Rpc Morgan,John Quinton,Roger E. Smith,Gerard Govers,Jean Poesen,Karl Auerswald,G Chisci,Dino Torri,Merete Styczen +8 more
TL;DR: The European Soil Erosion Model (EUROSEM) as mentioned in this paper is a dynamic distributed model able to simulate sediment transport, erosion and deposition over the land surface by rill and interill processes in single storms for both individual fields and small catchments.
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A GIS procedure for automatically calculating the USLE LS factor on topographically complex landscape units
P.J.J Desmet,Gerard Govers +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a computer algorithm to calculate the USLE and RUSLE LS-factors over a two-dimensional landscape is presented and compared to a manual method, both methods yield broadly similar results in terms of relative erosion risk mapping.
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The impact of agricultural soil erosion on the global carbon cycle
K. Van Oost,Timothy A. Quine,Gerard Govers,S. De Gryze,Johan Six,Jennifer W. Harden,J. C. Ritchie,Gregory W. McCarty,Goswin Heckrath,Costas Kosmas,Juan Vicente Giráldez,J. R. Marques da Silva,Roel Merckx +12 more
TL;DR: Using caesium-137 and carbon inventory measurements from a large-scale survey, consistent evidence is found for an erosion-induced sink of atmospheric carbon equivalent to approximately 26% of the carbon transported by erosion.
The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the mobilization and deposition of agricultural soils can significantly alter nutrient and carbon cycling, and that erosion can result in lateral fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus that are similar in magnitude to those induced by fertilizer application and crop removal.
Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives
Harry Vereecken,Andrea Schnepf,Jan W. Hopmans,Mathieu Javaux,Dani Or,Tiina Roose,Jan Vanderborght,Michael H. Young,Wulf Amelung,Matt Aitkenhead,Steven D. Allison,Shmuel Assouline,Philippe C. Baveye,Markus Berli,Nicolas Brüggemann,Peter Finke,Markus Flury,Thomas Gaiser,Gerard Govers,Teamrat A. Ghezzehei,Paul D. Hallett,Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen,J. Heppell,Rainer Horn,Johan Alexander Huisman,Diederik Jacques,François Jonard,Stefan Kollet,François Lafolie,Krzysztof Lamorski,Daniel Leitner,Alex B. McBratney,Budiman Minasny,Carsten Montzka,Wolfgang Nowak,Ya. A. Pachepsky,José Padarian,Nunzio Romano,Kurt Roth,Youri Rothfuss,Edwin C. Rowe,Andreas Schwen,Jirka Šimůnek,Aaldrik Tiktak,J.C. van Dam,S.E.A.T.M. van der Zee,Hans-Jörg Vogel,Jasper A. Vrugt,Thomas Wöhling,Iain M. Young +49 more
TL;DR: Key challenges in modeling soil processes are identified, including the systematic incorporation of heterogeneity and uncertainty, the integration of data and models, and strategies for effective integration of knowledge on physical, chemical, and biological soil processes.