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Olivier Cerdan is affiliated with the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières in France. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular emphasis on soil science, water science and technology, and ecology.

Their work is notably concentrated in the following subfields:

  • Soil Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Key research topics covered by Cerdan include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Nuclear and radioactivity studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Olivier Cerdan demonstrate a focus on environmental dynamics, sediment management, and contamination:

  • Persistence of environmental DNA in cultivated soils: implication of this memory effect for reconstructing the dynamics of land use and cover changes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Modelling forest fire and firebreak scenarios in a mediterranean mountainous catchment: Impacts on sediment loads, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Modelling effects of forest fire and post-fire management in a catchment prone to erosion: Impacts on sediment yield, 2022, CATENA
  • Impact of the 2019 typhoons on sediment source contributions and radiocesium concentrations in rivers draining the Fukushima radioactive plume, Japan, 2020, Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Analysis of off-site economic costs induced by runoff and soil erosion: Example of two areas in the northwestern European loess belt for the last two decades (Normandy, France), 2021, Land Use Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cerdan include:

  • Olivier Evrard
  • Rosalie Vandromme
  • Thomas Grangeon
  • Sébastien Salvador-Blanes
  • Anthony Foucher

Olivier Cerdan's publications appear often in a range of scientific venues, particularly:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • CATENA
  • Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Modeling Response of Soil Erosion and Runoff to Changes in Precipitation and Cover

    M.A. Nearing;V.G. Jetten;C. Baffaut;O. Cerdan

  • Rates and spatial variations of soil erosion in Europe: A study based on erosion plot data

    O. Cerdan;G. Govers;Y. Le Bissonnais;K. Van Oost

  • Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

    Tobias Heckmann;Marco Cavalli;Olivier Cerdan;Saskia Foerster

  • Incorporating soil surface crusting processes in an expert-based runoff model: Sealing and Transfer by Runoff and Erosion related to Agricultural Management

    O Cerdan;V Souchère;V Lecomte;A Couturier

  • Scale effect on runoff from experimental plots to catchments in agricultural areas in Normandy

    O. Cerdan;Y. Le Bissonnais;G. Govers;V. Lecomte

  • Variability of soil surface characteristics influencing runoff and interrill erosion

    Y. Le Bissonnais;O. Cerdan;V. Lecomte;H. Benkhadra

  • Land use and climate change effects on soil erosion in a semi-arid mountainous watershed (High Atlas, Morocco)

    Vincent Simonneaux;Aouatif Cheggour;Charles Deschamps;Florent Mouillot

  • Operational performance of current synthetic aperture radar sensors in mapping soil surface characteristics in agricultural environments: application to hydrological and erosion modelling

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Olivier Cerdan;Mehrez Zribi;Véronique Auzet

  • Radiocesium transfer from hillslopes to the Pacific Ocean after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident: A review.

    Olivier Evrard;J. Patrick Laceby;Hugo Lepage;Yuichi Onda

  • Rill erosion on cultivated hillslopes during two extreme rainfall events in Normandy, France

    O Cerdan;Y Le Bissonnais;A Couturier;H Bourennane

  • The application of remote-sensing data to monitoring and modelling of soil erosion

    C. King;N. Baghdadi;V. Lecomte;O. Cerdan

  • Regional soil erosion risk mapping in Lebanon

    Rania Bou Kheir;Olivier Cerdan;Chadi Abdallah

  • Grass strip effects on runoff and soil loss

    Yves Le Bissonnais;Véronique Lecomte;Olivier Cerdan

  • Operational Mapping of Soil Moisture Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: Application to the Touch Basin (France)

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Maelle Aubert;Olivier Cerdan;Laurent Franchistéguy

  • Application of an index of sediment connectivity in a lowland area

    Olivier Cerdan;Vincent Mardhel;Marc Desmet

  • Runoff generation fostered by physical and biological crusts in semi-arid sandy soils

    O. Malam Issa;O. Malam Issa;C. Valentin;J.L. Rajot;J.L. Rajot;O. Cerdan

  • Modelling interrill erosion in small cultivated catchments

    O. Cerdan;Y. Le Bissonnais;A. Couturier;N. Saby

  • Accelerated sediment fluxes by water and tillage erosion on European agricultural land

    K. Van Oost;Olivier Cerdan;T. A. Quine

  • PAN-EUROPEAN SOIL EROSION RISK ASSESSMENT:

    Michael J. Kirkby;Robert J. A. Jones;Brian Irvine;Anne Gobin

  • Sheet and Rill Erosion

    Olivier Cerdan;Jean Poesen;Gérard Govers;Nicolas Saby

  • Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment: The PESERA Map Version 1 October 2003, Explanation of: Special Publication Ispra 2004 no. 73, S.P.I.04.73

    M. J Kirkby;Robert J. A Jones;Brian Irvine;Anne Gobin

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Evrard
Olivier Evrard University of Paris-Saclay
Y. Le Bissonnais
Y. Le Bissonnais Montpellier SupAgro
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Jean-Marie Mouchel
Jean-Marie Mouchel Université Paris Cité
Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda University of Tsukuba
Mike Kirkby
Mike Kirkby University of Leeds
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
John N. Quinton
John N. Quinton Lancaster University
Andreas Klik
Andreas Klik BOKU University
Nicolas P.A. Saby
Nicolas P.A. Saby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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