Catena is an interdisciplinary Journal of Soil Science that publishes papers describing original field and laboratory investigations and reviews on landscape evolution and geoecology with emphasis on aspects of soil science, hydrology and geomorphology. It aims to disseminate new knowledge and foster better understanding of the physical environment, of evolutionary sequences that have resulted in past and current landscapes, and of the natural processes that are likely to determine the fate of our terrestrial environment. Papers within any one of the above topics are welcome provided they are scientifically novel and of sufficiently wide interest and relevance. Reviews are expected to critically discuss and synthesize findings and approaches on topics falling within the core aim of Catena. Papers just summarizing literature results, and bibliometric analyses will not be considered. Comments are considered for publication only if they bring important scientific new elements and/or corrections on substantial aspects of previously published articles. They should be brief (no more than 2 journal pages i.e. ca. 2000 words).

The following types of submissions will not be considered:
Studies without explicit relation to landscape.
Groundwater studies.
Geobotanical, ecological and vegetation studies with no (or limited) relation to soil, hydrology, geomorphology or landscape evolution.
Chemical laboratory experiments focussing predominantly on the identification/description of chemical and nano-surface reactions with no relation to the field situation.
Field or laboratory studies for purely geotechnical purposes that are more appropriate for environmental engineering.
Surface runoff or runoff studies having no relation to soil or geomorphic change (e.g., sediment transport would relate to surface processes and, thus, geomorphology).
Microbiological studies with no relation to soil formation and landscape.
Comparison of the performance of models (process-based, machine learning) and their robustness with no or only a minimal landscape-learning effect.
Agricultural/crop production experiments without a solid relation to landscape.
Purely geological studies.
Purely Meteorological studies.
Studies on ecosystem services and land use planning.
Regionally oriented studies without novelty in approach or method.
Studies comparing a range of statistical methods without reflection on the landscape-process causing performance differences between methods.


The Editors-in-Chief do not accept presubmission enquiries and invite authors to check the Guide for Authors and the Aims and Scope to determine if a manuscript is likely to be of interest to the journal.

Original research papers (Regular Papers)
Review articles
Technical Notes

Editors-in-Chief
E.L.H. Cammeraat
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Email E.L.H. Cammeraat Land degradation; Soil erosion, desertification, and use change; Land abandonment; Soil organic carbon, upscaling, connectivity; Interaction vegetation-geomorphological processes.
A. L. Collins
Rothamsted Research, Sustainable Agriculture Sciences, Devon, United Kingdom Email A. L. Collins Diffuse pollution, Sediment sources, Sediment budgets, Catchment management, Modelling
M. Egli
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland Email M. Egli Soil formation and evolution (incl. soil organic matter); Soils in time and space; Weathering (mechanisms and rates); Clay mineralogy; Landscape evolution; Geomorphic processes, dating (radiocarbon, 10Be)
V. Jetten
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Email V. Jetten
K. Stahr
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Email K. Stahr Soil genesis; Soil mineralogy; Land evaluation; N-cycle; Recycling of organic waste.Research projects in forest and agricultural soils of Germany as well as Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, PR China, Somalia, Niger, Benin, Thailand, Vietnam.
G. Verstraeten
KU Leuven Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Heverlee, Belgium Email G. Verstraeten Sediment yield; Sediment budget; Human impact; Reservoir sedimentation; Palaeo-ecology; Geoarchaeology
Associate Editors
E. Bonifacio, PhD
University of Turin, Department of Agicultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Grugliasco (TO), Italy Email E. Bonifacio, PhD Pedogenesis, Clay Minerals, Ultramafics, Forest Soils, Humus Forms, Soil Aggregates
N. Kuhn
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Email N. Kuhn Hydrology; Process geomorphology; Soil erosion; Geochemical cycles; Experimental geomorphology
L. Lespez
University of Paris-East Creteil, Creteil, France & Laboratory of Physical Geography, CNRS, Meudon, France Email L. Lespez Geoarchaology, Palaeoenvironment, Fluvial system, Nature/Society interplay, Long-term anthropogenic process, River restoration
B. Liu
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Email B. Liu
J.F Martinez-Murillo
University of Málaga, Malaga, Spain Email J.F Martinez-Murillo Geomorphology, Soil erosion, Hillslope and fluvial processes, Eco-geomorphology, and Mapping
A. Novara
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Email A. Novara SOIL ORGANIC CARBON sequestration; Soil Organic matter dynamics; Soil erosion, and degradation in agricultural soils.
F. Scarciglia
University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy Email F. Scarciglia Weathering and soil formation processes; Geomorphic processes and landscape evolution, Soil micromorphology; Soil mineralogy; Volcanic soils; Soil chronosequences; Paleopedology.
C. Siebe
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Email C. Siebe Soil pollution and degradation processes; Anthropogenic impacts; Technogenic soil genesis and characterization; Soil organic matter dynamics; Volcanic ash soils
J. A. M Temme
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States Email J. A. M TemmeLandscape models, Complex response, Landscape evolution, Chronosequences, Landslides, Interaction between soil and landscapes, Computer modelling, Geostatistics
D. Ward
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Email D. Ward Geomorphology; fluvial, glacial, and hillslope erosion processes; Landscape evolution modeling; Geochronology.
Editorial Board
T. Alekseeva
Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science RAS, Pusino, Russian Federation Soil mineralogy; Clay mineralogy; Soil geochemistry; Soil organic matter; Palaeopedology - Holocene, Pleistocene, Palaeozoic
R.W. Arnold
USDA-ARS Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
K. Auerswald
Technical University of Munich Center for Food Land Use and Environment Department of Soil Science, Freising, Germany Soil erosion; Soil science; Grassland; Stable isotopes; Radio isotopes; Geostatistics; Water quality; Grazing;Hydrology
J. Baartman
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Soil erosion modelling; Geomorphology; Landscape evolution modelling and land degradation
R. Bäumler
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany Soil Geographie especially in high altitude Asia; Soil Genesis; Ecosystem Research; High Altitude Mountain Soils; Paleosoils; Archeological soil science
G. Benito
Spanish Scientific Research Council, Madrid, Spain Palaeoflood hydrology; Palaeohydrology; Fluvial geomorphology
H.-P. Blume
University of Kiel Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel, Germany
C. Boix-Fayos
Center for Edaphology and Applied Biology of the Segura River, Murcia, Spain
G. Brierley
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Geomorphology; River science; River management; Hillslope processes; River processes; Environmental management
A. Cendrero
University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain Geomorphic hazards; Interactions between human activity and geomorphic processes; Global geomorphic change; Land-use assessment and planning; Environmental quality indicators.
M. Della Seta
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Badlands; Water erosion; Geomorphological hazard; Geomorphic markers; Geostatistics; Morpho-evolutionary models
B. Diekkrüger
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
E. Eckmeier
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany Soil formation; Land-use change; Geoarchaeology; Paleosoils
L. Gaspar
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Soil erosion; Soil redistribution processes; Fallout radionuclides (Cs137, Pb210, Be7); Sediment tracing; Fingerprinting techniques; Source of fine sediments; Soil degradation
J.B.J. Harrison
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, United StatesSoils; Soil landscapes; Soil geomorphology; Geomorphic processes
A.E. Hartemink
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Soil Science, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Digital soil mapping; Tropical soils; Pedology; Soil fertility
J. Hooke
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Geomorphology; Rivers; Coasts; Erosion: Coastal and fluvial management; Floods; Sediment
S.M. de Jong
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Remote Sensing; Imaging Spectrometry; Land degradation & hydrology; Soil erosion; Natural vegetation; Spatial statistics
C. Kabala
Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland Soil origin and transformation; Mountain soils; Soils of polar/subpolar regions; Soils of boreal regions; Soil contamination; Human iimpact on soils; Soil classification (including WRB and Soil Taxonomy)
P.I.A. Kinnell
University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
J. Latron
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, SpainHydrological response of small catchments (0-10 km2): Hydrological monitoring; Rainfall-runoff relationships; Runoff generation processes; Modeling.Sediment dynamics in small catchments (0-10km2): Erosion, Sediment transport, Sediment budgets.
T. Lei
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Hydrology; Instrumentation; Sediment measurement; Soil erosion; Soil physics
A. Mirabella
Soil evolution and weathering processes; Clay minerals characteristics and transformation; Soil organic matter (humic and fulvic acids) characterization.
T. Oguchi
The University of Tokyo Center for Spatial Information Science, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan Hillslope and fluvial geomorphology, GIS
Y. Onda
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Y.A. Pachepsky
USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States For geoderma: Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural networks; Regression tree; Genetic algorithm; Pedotransfer function; Soil hydraulic properties; Soil water flow; Solute transport; Spatial variability; Soil pore space; Soil structure, fate and transport of microorganisms; Crop simulation
X. Peng, PhD
Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China Scanning, Tomography
J. Poulenard
Mountain Environments Dynamics and Terrain, Le Bourget du Lac, France Mountain soil and Volcanic soil; Sediments sources and Erosion; Paleopedology and paleoenvironments
K. Pustovoytov
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Paleopedology; Geoarchaeology; Soil chronosequences; Pedogenic carbonate; Radiocarbon dating; Stable isotopes
D.G. Rossiter
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States Soil geography; Soil survey; Land suitability evaluation; Geostatistics applied to soil and related scieces; Urban soils; Caribbean and northern Latin America including Brazil, northeast and southeast USA, northeast Canada, central and north China, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Cameroon, Mozambique, India
G. Stoops
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium Soil micromorphology; Soil mineralogy; Weathering and laterites.
D. Torri
National Research Council, Roma, Italy Soil erosion; Raindrop detachment; Raindrop transport; Runoff detachment; Runoff transport capacity; Rill erosion; Gully erosion; Rill and gully channel geometry; Soil erodibility; Soil shear strength; Soil cohesion; Soil surface roughness hydraulics friction; Vegetation-soil interaction; Vegetation effects on soil erosion; Biodiversity badlands
C. Valentin
Embassy of France in Laos, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic Soil surface crust; Runoff production; Catchment hydrology; Soil erosion; Southeast Asia; West Africa: savannah and Sahelian zones
D.E. Walling
University of Exeter Department of Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom
R. Webster, D.Phil., D.Sc., D.Hons
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom Soil science; Soil survey; Environmental science more generally; Geostatistics; Statistics more generally.
X. Wei
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China Land use change; Organic carbon and nutrients turnover and transportation; Soil aggregates, biogeochemical cycles; Soil erosion; Soil fertility
B. van Wesemael
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Vis NIR spectroscopy; Soil organic matter and digital soil mapping
X. P. Yang
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Geomorphology; Quaternary geology; Climate change; Desertification; Arid landscape; Desert