Shifts in landslide frequency-area distribution after forest conversion in the tropical Andes

Anthropocene

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-85

  Guns, Marie ^a,b   Vanacker, Veerle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Andes; Geomorphic work; Land cover change; Landslide frequency area distribution; Landslides; Magnitude frequency

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LAND COVER; LANDSLIDE; MOUNTAIN REGION;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 84916883364     PISSN: 22133054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. F. Agliardi, G.B. Crosta, P. Frattini, and M.G. Malusa Giant non-catastrophic landslides and the long-term exhumation of the European Alps Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 365 2013 263 274
2. I. Alcántara-Ayala, O. Esteban-Chávez, and J.F. Parrot Landsliding related to land-cover change: a diachronic analysis of hillslope instability distribution in the Sierra Norte, Puebla, Mexico Catena 65 2006 152 165
3. S. Baize, L. Audin, T. Winter, A. Alvarado, L. Pilatasig, M. Taipe, P. Reyes, P. Kauffman, and H. Yepes First paleoseismic results for the Pallatanga fault (Central Ecuador), a major structure of the South-American crust Geomorphology 2014 10.1016/J.geomorph.2014.03.020
4. V. Balthazar, V. Vanacker, A. Molina, and E.F. Lambin Impacts of forest cover change on ecosystem services in high Andean mountains Ecol. Indicators 2014 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.07.043 (in press)
5. P. Basabe Prevención de desastres naturales en la Cuenca del Paute - Informe final: Proyecto Precupa. 1998 Swiss Disaster Relief Unit (SDR/CSS) Cuenca, Ecuador
6. F. Brardinoni, M.A. Hassan, T. Rollerson, and D. Maynard Colluvial sediment dynamics in mountain drainage basins Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 284 2009 310 319
7. A.L. Densmore, R.S. Anderson, B.G. McAdoo, and M.A. Ellis Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides Science 275 1997 369 372
8. L. Donati, and M.C. Turrini An objective method to rank the importance of the factors predisposing to landslides with the GIS methodology: application to an area of the Apennines (Valnerina; Perugia, Italy) Eng. Geol. 63 2002 277 289
9. K. Farley Pathways to forest transition: local case studies from the Ecuadorian Andes J. Lat. Am. Geogr. 9 2010 7 26
10. P. Frattini, and G.B. Crosta The role of material properties and landscape morphology on landslide size distributions Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 361 2013 310 319
11. H. Gagnmon La photo aérienne son interprétation dans les études de l'environnement et de l'aménagement du territoire 1974 Montréal, Canada
12. M. Galli, F. Ardizzone, M. Cardinali, F. Guzzetti, and P. Reichenbach Comparing landslide inventory maps Geomorphology 94 2008 268 289
13. J.M. García-Ruiz, S. Beguería, L.C. Alatorre, and J. Puigdefábregas Land cover changes and shallow landsliding in the flysch sector of the Spanish Pyrenees Geomorphology 124 2010 250 259
14. T. Glade Landslide occurrence as a response to land use change: a review of evidence from New Zealand Catena 51 2003 297 314
15. M. Guns Sediment Dynamics in Tropical Mountain Regions: Influence of Anthropogenic Disturbances on Sediment Transfer Mechanisms (PhD thesis) 2013 Université catholique de Louvain, Faculty of Sciences 158 pp.
16. M. Guns, and V. Vanacker Forest cover change trajectories and their impact on landslide occurrence in the tropical Andes Environ. Earth Sci. 70 2013 2941 2952
17. R.H. Guthrie, and S.G. Evans Work, persistence, and formative events: the geomorphic impact of landslides Geomorphology 88 2007 266 275
18. F. Guzzetti, M. Galli, P. Reichenbach, F. Ardizzone, and M. Cardinali Landslide hazard assessment in the Collazzone area, Umbria, Central Italy Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 6 2006 115 131
19. F. Guzzetti, B.D. Malamud, D.L. Turcotte, and P. Reichenbach Power-law correlations of landslide areas in central Italy Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 195 2002 169 183
20. F. Guzzetti, P. Reichenbach, M. Cardinali, M. Galli, and F. Ardizzone Probabilistic landslide hazard assessment at the basin scale Geomorphology 72 2005 272 299
21. M.C. Hansen, S.V. Stehman, and P.V. Potapov From the cover: quantification of global gross forest cover loss Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107 2010 8650 8655
22. N. Hovius, C.P. Stark, and P.A. Allen Sediment flux from a mountain belt derived by landslide mapping Geology 25 1997 231
23. INAMHI Anuario hidrologico y meteorológico 1970-2009 2009 Instituto Nacional de Meteorología en Hidrología
24. O. Katz, and E. Aharonov Landslides in vibrating sand box: what controls types of slope failure and frequency magnitude relations? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 247 2006 280 294
25. O. Korup Large landslides and their effect on sediment flux in South Westland, New Zealand Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 30 2005 305 323
26. O. Korup Earth's portfolio of extreme sediment transport events Earth-Sci. Rev. 112 2012 115 125
27. E.F. Lambin, and H.J. Geist Regional differences in tropical deforestation Environment 45 2003 22 36
28. E.F. Lambin, B.L. Turner, H.J. Geist, S.B. Agbola, A. Angelsen, J.W. Bruce, O.T. Coomes, R. Dirzo, G. Fischer, C. Folke, P.S. George, K. Homewood, J. Imbernon, R. Leemans, X. Li, E.F. Moran, M. Mortimore, P.S. Ramakrishnan, J.F. Richards, H. Skånes, W. Steffen, G.D. Stone, U. Svedin, T.A. Veldkamp, C. Vogel, and J. Xu The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths Glob. Environ. Change 11 2001 261 269
29. I.J. Larsen, D.R. Montgomery, and O. Korup Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material Nat. Geosci. 3 2010 247 251
30. T.M. Lillesand, and J.W. Keifer Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation 1994 New York
31. J.L. Luteyn Páramos: a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution, and botanical literature 1999 The New York Botanical Garden Bronx, New York
32. B.D. Malamud, D.L. Turcotte, F. Guzzetti, and P. Reichenbach Landslide inventories and their statistical properties Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 29 2004 687 711
33. A. Molina, G. Govers, J. Poesen, H. Vanhemelryck, B. Debievre, and V. Vanacker Environmental factors controlling spatial variation in sediment yield in a central Andean mountain area Geomorphology 98 2008 176 186
34. R. Mosandl, S. Günter, B. Stimm, and M. Weber Ecuador suffers the highest deforestation rate in South America E. Beck, J. Bendix, I. Kottke, F. Makeschin, R. Mosandl, Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador 2008 Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 37 40
35. P. Pourrut L'eau en Equateur: Principaux acquis en Hydroclimatologie Institut Français de recherche Scientifique Pour le Développement en Coopération 1994
36. M. Rossi, M. Cardinali, F. Fiorucci, I. Marchesini, A.C. Mondini, M. Santangelo, S. Ghosh, D.E.L. Riguer, T. Lahousse, K.T. Chang, and F. Guzzetti A tool for the estimation of the distribution of landslide area R. Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 14, EGU2012-4938-1 EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April 2012 (Abstract, Poster) 2012
37. R. Schlögel, I. Torgoev, C. De Marneffe, and H.-B. Havenith Evidence of a changing size-frequency distribution of landslides in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan, Central Asia Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 36 2011 1658 1669
38. R.C. Sidle, and H. Ochiai Landslides: processes Predict. Land Use 2006 55 62
39. R. Soeters, and C.J. van Westen Slope instability recognition, analysis and zonation K. Turner, R.L. Schuster, Landslides Investigation and Mitigation 1996 Transportation Research Board Special Report 247
40. C.P. Stark, and N. Hovius The characterization of landslide size distributions Geophys. Res. Lett. 28 2001 1091 1094
41. T. Sugai, and H. Ohmori Magnitude-frequency distribution of landslide mass in uplifting mountains Trans. Jpn. Geomorphol. Union 22 2001 229
42. M. Van Den Eeckhaut, J. Poesen, G. Govers, G. Verstraeten, and A. Demoulin Characteristics of the size distribution of recent and historical landslides in a populated hilly region Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 256 2007 588 603
43. V. Vanacker, G. Govers, E. Tacuri, J. Poesen, G. Dercon, and F. Cisneros Using sequential aerial photographs to detect land-use changes in the Austro Ecuadoriano Rev. Géogr. Alp. 88 2000 65 75
44. V. Vanacker, M. Vanderschaeghe, G. Govers, E. Willems, J. Poesen, J. Deckers, and B. De Bievre Linking hydrological, infinite slope stability and land use change models through GIS for assessing the impact of deforestation on landslide susceptibility in High Andean watersheds Geomorphology 52 2003 299 315
45. V. Vanacker, F. von Blanckenburg, G. Govers, A. Molina, J. Poesen, J. Deckers, and P. Kubik Restoring dense vegetation can slow mountain erosion to near natural benchmark levels Geology 35 2007 303
46. A. Winckell, C. Zebrowski, and M. Sourdat Las regiones y paisages del Ecuador 1997 Quito, Ecuador