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Lionel Mabit is affiliated with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria. Their research spans several disciplines within environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. The subfields of their scholarly activity include soil science, earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

The main topics covered by Mabit's work focus on soil erosion and sediment transport, aeolian processes and effects, soil geostatistics and mapping, as well as studies related to radioactive contamination and transfer, radioactivity and radon measurements, and nuclear and radioactivity studies. Hydrology and watershed management studies also form part of their research interests.

Recent publications by Lionel Mabit include:

  • Plutonium aided reconstruction of caesium atmospheric fallout in European topsoils, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Antecedent soil moisture and rain intensity control pathways and quality of organic carbon exports from arable land, 2021, CATENA
  • Lateral mobilization of soil carbon induced by runoff along karstic slopes, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Variation of soil organic carbon, stable isotopes, and soil quality indicators across an erosion-deposition catena in a historical Spanish olive orchard, 2020, SOIL
  • Use of geochemical fingerprints to trace sediment sources in an agricultural catchment of Argentina, 2020, International Soil and Water Conservation Research

Mabit has published in various academic venues including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • CATENA
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • SOIL
  • International Soil and Water Conservation Research

Frequent collaborators in Mabit's research are:

  • Gema Guzmán
  • Arsenio Toloza
  • Christian Resch
  • Katrin Meusburger
  • Olivier Evrard

Best Publications

  • Comparative advantages and limitations of the fallout radionuclides 137Cs, 210Pbex and 7Be for assessing soil erosion and sedimentation

    Lionel Mabit;M. Benmansour;Desmond E. Walling

  • Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review

    L. Mabit;M. Benmansour;J.M. Abril;D.E. Walling

  • The usefulness of 137Cs as a tracer for soil erosion assessment: A critical reply to Parsons and Foster (2011)

    L. Mabit;K. Meusburger;E. Fulajtar;C. Alewell

  • Sediment tracers in water erosion studies: current approaches and challenges

    Gema Guzmán;John N. Quinton;Mark A. Nearing;Lionel Mabit

  • Assessment of spatial distribution of fallout radionuclides through geostatistics concept.

    L. Mabit;C. Bernard

  • Spatial Distribution of Soil Organic Matter Using Geostatistics: A Key Indicator to Assess Soil Degradation Status in Central Italy

    A. Marchetti;C. Piccini;R. Francaviglia;L. Mabit

  • Spatial variability of erosion and soil organic matter content estimated from 137Cs measurements and geostatistics

    L. Mabit;C. Bernard;M. Makhlouf;M.R. Laverdière

  • Suitability of 239+240Pu and 137Cs as tracers for soil erosion assessment in mountain grasslands.

    Christine Alewell;Katrin Meusburger;Gregor Juretzko;Lionel Mabit

  • Assessment of soil erosion and deposition rates in a Moroccan agricultural field using fallout 137Cs and 210Pbex

    M. Benmansour;L. Mabit;A. Nouira;R. Moussadek

  • Results of an IAEA inter-comparison exercise to assess 137Cs and total 210Pb analytical performance in soil.

    A. Shakhashiro;L. Mabit

  • Quantitative sediment source attribution with compound-specific isotope analysis in a C3 plant-dominated catchment (central Switzerland)

    Christine Alewell;Axel Birkholz;Katrin Meusburger;Yael Schindler Wildhaber

  • Assumptions and challenges in the use of fallout beryllium-7 as a soil and sediment tracer in river basins

    A. Taylor;W.H. Blake;H.G. Smith;L. Mabit

  • 239 + 240Pu from “contaminant” to soil erosion tracer: Where do we stand?

    C. Alewell;A. Pitois;K. Meusburger;M. Ketterer

  • A deconvolutional Bayesian mixing model approach for river basin sediment source apportionment.

    William H. Blake;Pascal Boeckx;Brian C. Stock;Hugh G. Smith

  • Fallout radionuclide-based techniques for assessing the impact of soil conservation measures on erosion control and soil quality: an overview of the main lessons learnt under an FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project

    G. Dercon;L. Mabit;G. Hancock;M.L. Nguyen

  • Assessment of erosion and deposition rates within an Austrian agricultural watershed by combining 137Cs, 210Pbex and conventional measurements

    L. Mabit;A. Klik;M. Benmansour;A. Toloza

  • Use of a 137Cs re-sampling technique to investigate temporal changes in soil erosion and sediment mobilisation for a small forested catchment in southern Italy

    Paolo Porto;Des E. Walling;Christine Alewell;Giovanni Callegari

  • Assessment of erosion in the Boyer River watershed (Canada) using a GIS oriented sampling strategy and 137Cs measurements

    Lionel Mabit;Claude Bernard;Marc R. Laverdière

  • Relationship between soil 137Cs inventories and chemical properties in a small intensively cropped watershed

    Lionel Mabit;Claude Bernard

  • Plutonium aided reconstruction of caesium atmospheric fallout in European topsoils

    Katrin Meusburger;Olivier Evrard;Christine Alewell;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Modelling Deposition and Erosion rates with RadioNuclides (MODERN) – Part 1: A new conversion model to derive soil redistribution rates from inventories of fallout radionuclides

    Laura Arata;Katrin Meusburger;Elena Frenkel;Annette A'Campo-Neuen

  • Suitability of 239+240Pu and 137Cs as tracers for soil erosion assessment in Swiss mountain grasslands

    Christine Alewell;Katrin Meusburger;Gregor Juretzko;Lionel Mabit

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
William H. Blake
William H. Blake Plymouth University
Andreas Klik
Andreas Klik BOKU University
José A. Gómez
José A. Gómez Spanish National Research Council
Desmond E. Walling
Desmond E. Walling University of Exeter
Philip N. Owens
Philip N. Owens University of Northern British Columbia
Hugh G. Smith
Hugh G. Smith Landcare Research
Ana Navas
Ana Navas Spanish National Research Council
John N. Quinton
John N. Quinton Lancaster University

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