Laboratory and Field Protocol for Estimating Sheet Erosion Rates from DendrogeomorphologyJose Maria Bodoque 1, Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas 2,3, Juan Manuel Rubiales 4,5, Markus Stoffel 2,3
1University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), 2Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 3Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 4Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 5Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Characterizing erosion from dendrogeomorphology has usually focused on accurately finding the starting time of root exposure, by examining macroscopic or cell level changes caused by exposure. Here, we offer a detailed description of different novel techniques to obtain more precise erosion rates from highly accurate microtopographic data.
