Articles | Volume 24, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-717-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-717-2020
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Surface water as a cause of land degradation from dryland salinity

J. Nikolaus Callow, Matthew R. Hipsey, and Ryan I. J. Vogwill

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Secondary dryland salinity is a global land degradation issue. Our understanding of causal processes is adapted from wet and hydrologically connected landscapes and concludes that low end-of-catchment runoff indicates land clearing alters water balance in favour of increased infiltration and rising groundwater that bring salts to the surface causing salinity. This study shows surface flows play an important role in causing valley floor recharge and dryland salinity in low-gradient landscapes.