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Medhycon-3 (2022-2026)
Ecogeomorphic modelling in Mediterranean catchments: connectivity thresholds at multiple scales for land degradation assessment.
The Medhycon-3 project pretends to substantially advance our understanding of ecogeomorphic processes in Mediterranean catchments under global change impacts, upscaling hillslope observations to catchments by combining long-term field data and numerical models at various scales in order to detect degradation thresholds as an effective tool for proactive and smart catchment action plans. Medhycon-3 pretends to substantially advance the understanding of ecogeomorphic processes in Mediterranean catchments under global change impacts in order to detect degradation thresholds as an effective tool for proactive and smart catchment action plans:
- To define connectivity thresholds of water and sediment fluxes for identifying locations and times when/where feedbacks between landscape form and function are particularly most susceptible to land degradation.
- To upscale hillslope observations of surface energy fluxes to water and sediment yields in catchments with ecogeomorphic models at multiple and interacting temporal and spatial scales. Research will be focused in a representative Mediterranean cultural landscape, the Sa Font de la Vila catchment (5 km2, Mallorca). It is characterized by afforestation of traditional agricultural land and the effects of two large wildfires in 1994 and 2013 where agricultural terraces occupy 37% of the area.