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Over the past decades, many investments in soil conservation have been made to limit the negative effects of gully erosion in Dogu’a Tembien. Gully erosion remains, however, a key soil erosion process resulting in land degradation in the fragile environment (Photo 22.1).
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Frankl, A., Guyassa, E., Poesen, J., Nyssen, J. (2019). Gully Erosion and Control in the Tembien Highlands. In: Nyssen, J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (eds) Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04955-3_22
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