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Overview

Kristof Van Oost is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on soil science, ecology, and environmental engineering.

Their work covers various specialized subfields including soil science, ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and water science and technology. Major topics addressed in their research include soil erosion and sediment transport, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil geostatistics and mapping, peatlands and wetlands ecology, hydrology and watershed management studies, as well as remote sensing and LiDAR applications and their use in agriculture.

Kristof Van Oost has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Biogeosciences
  • CATENA
  • SOIL

Their recent papers reflect a broad interest in soil and environmental topics, including:

  • Plutonium aided reconstruction of caesium atmospheric fallout in European topsoils, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Multiplatform-SfM and TLS Data Fusion for Monitoring Agricultural Terraces in Complex Topographic and Landcover Conditions, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Insights into the future of soil erosion, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ending the Cinderella status of terraces and lynchets in Europe: The geomorphology of agricultural terraces and implications for ecosystem services and climate adaptation, 2021, Geomorphology
  • Global rainfall erosivity database (GloREDa) and monthly R-factor data at 1 km spatial resolution, 2023, Data in Brief

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include Johan Six, Pascal Boeckx, Marijn Bauters, Matti Barthel, and Travis W. Drake, with whom they have coauthored numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.

    Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Larissa R. Fleischer;Emanuele Lugato

  • The impact of agricultural soil erosion on the global carbon cycle

    K. Van Oost;T. A. Quine;G. Govers;S. De Gryze

  • The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling

    John N. Quinton;Gerard Govers;Kristof Van Oost;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Antoine Stevens;Antoine Stevens;Johan Six;Roel Merckx

  • Evaluating the effects of changes in landscape structure on soil erosion by water and tillage

    Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers;Phillipe Desmet

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Modelling mean annual sediment yield using a distributed approach

    Anton J. J. Van Rompaey;Gert Verstraeten;Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers

  • Soil erosion as a driver of land-use change

    Martha M. Bakker;Gerard Govers;Costas Kosmas;Veerle Vanacker

  • Reproducibility of UAV-based earth topography reconstructions based on Structure-from-Motion algorithms

    François Clapuyt;Veerle Vanacker;Kristof Van Oost

  • Rill erosion: Exploring the relationship between experiments, modelling and field observations

    Gerard Govers;Rafael Giménez;Kristof Van Oost

  • Carbon cycling in eroding landscapes: geomorphic controls on soil organic C pool composition and C stabilization

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Johan Six;Bas Van Wesemael;Kristof Van Oost

  • Evaluating an integrated approach to catchment management to reduce soil loss and sediment pollution through modelling

    Gert Verstraeten;Kristof Van Oost;Anton Van Rompaey;Jean Poesen

  • Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

    Antony G. Brown;Laurent Lespez;David A. Sear;Jean-Jacques Macaire

  • Landscape‐scale modeling of carbon cycling under the impact of soil redistribution: The role of tillage erosion

    Kristof Van Oost;Gerard Govers;Timothy A. Quine;Goswin Heckrath

  • Human-induced erosion has offset one-third of carbon emissions from land cover change

    Zhengang Wang;Thomas Hoffmann;Johan Six;Jed O. Kaplan

  • Assessing the performance of GIS- based machine learning models with different accuracy measures for determining susceptibility to gully erosion.

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Christian Conoscenti;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi

  • Lateral transport of soil carbon and land-atmosphere CO2 flux induced by water erosion in China.

    Yao Yue;Yao Yue;Jinren Ni;Philippe Ciais;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Legacy of human-induced C erosion and burial on soil–atmosphere C exchange

    Kristof Van Oost;Gert Verstraeten;Sebastian Doetterl;Bastiaan Notebaert

  • A step towards a holistic assessment of soil degradation in Europe: Coupling on-site erosion with sediment transfer and carbon fluxes.

    P. Borrelli;K. Van Oost;K. Meusburger;C. Alewell

  • Comparison of differences in resolution and sources of controlling factors for gully erosion susceptibility mapping

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi;Ali Asghar Besalatpour

  • Tillage erosion and its effect on soil properties and crop yield in Denmark

    G Heckrath;J Djurhuus;T A Quine;K Van Oost

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Bas van Wesemael
Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain
Veerle Vanacker
Veerle Vanacker Université Catholique de Louvain
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Roel Merckx
Roel Merckx KU Leuven
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain

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