151296 20251017144614.0 doi 10.1002/esp.5088 sideral 124241 ART-2021-124241 eng Nadal-Romero, E. (orcid)0000-0002-4651-7828 Mediterranean badlands: Their driving processes and climate change futures 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Badlands are landforms that occur all over the World. In the Mediterranean region, badlands are found in both dry (arid and semi-arid) and wet (subhumid and humid) environments, and are characterized by complex hydro-geomorphological dynamics, high intense erosion processes and extreme sediment yield. Understanding the impact of Global Change is key to predict the on-site and off-site effects on badland dynamics, particularly its consequences on bedrock weathering, on sediment yield and delivery and on plant colonization. Here, conducting a systematic literature review, we analyzed an extensive database and identified the main climate-drivers affecting the hydro-geomorphological dynamics in Mediterranean badlands (based on non-metric multidimensional scaling and structural equation modeling analysis). Later, we examined the main impacts expected from climate change forecasting in the near future, and we explored the interactions between badlands response to climate variation. In Mediterranean badlands, weathering processes are mainly related to wetting–drying cycles and freeze–thaw cycles in dry and wet badlands, respectively. In both environments, rainfall amount appears as the main driver for runoff response, and rainfall amount and rainfall intensity for erosion dynamics. Future climate scenarios forecast a decrease in annual rainfall, number of rainfall events and frost days, and in soil moisture, and an increase in rainfall intensity. These changes will have direct hydro-geomorphological implications with direct and indirect effects on badland dynamics. This may result in a decrease in annual runoff in dry badlands, but the occurrence of more frequent extreme events would increase soil erosion and could negatively affect biological soil crust. In wet badlands, weathering and erosion processes may decrease, and a stabilization of the slopes, with consequently improved vegetation growth, may be expected. In addition, the forecasted changes must be taken into account, especially considering the possible off-site effects of these extreme environments. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/834329/EU/Sediment regime disturbance of river catchments in a changing land cover context: Geoenvironmental and population dynamics/SEDILAND This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 834329-SEDILAND info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/MANMOUNT PID2019-105983RB-100 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 3.956 2021 GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL 21 / 50 = 0.42 2021 Q2 T2 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 68 / 202 = 0.337 2021 Q2 T2 1.193 2021 Earth-Surface Processes 2021 Q1 Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) 2021 Q1 6.7 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Rodríguez-Caballero, E. Chamizo, S. Juez, C. (orcid)0000-0002-2985-1023 Cantón, Y. García-Ruiz, J.M. 47, 1 (2021), 17-31 Earth surf. processes landf. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 0197-9337 2856956 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/151296/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1541619 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/151296/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:151296 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:18:37 ARTICLE