Published January 16, 2024
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Soil processes in the Aeolian Litoral Sheet of Doñana National Park (Huelva, SW Spain): the catena of Colón small-lake ecosystem
Description
The wetlands on the quartz sands aeolian sheet make up one of the ecosystems most
recognized and important of the Doñana National Park and Doñana Biological Reserve (South
Spain). More than 650 temporal small-lakes have been surveyed in the abundant sand depressions
of the aeolian sheet, the most are a hydro-geomorphological dune-small-lake system. This paper
studies the pedological processes around Colón small-lake ecosystem wetland (COL), one of the
more interesting temporal small-lakes. The movement of fine particles through sand dunes ("sand
washing") and their subsequent accumulation in depth is the process responsible for the formation
of a large part of the small and medium small-lakes in the Eolian Litoral Sheet of Doñana. Their
bodies of water are supported by these clay layers generated corresponding sometimes to ancient
soil horizons formed under previous different ecological conditions. The vegetation, the soil
morphology and the evolution of the physical-chemical processes studied in this geosystem
small-lake of Colón allow understand this phenomenon of chronologies very recent.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/153476
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/153476
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- USE