摘要：Although the number of publications on gully erosion has increased over the last decade, there are still various aspectsof gully erosion that deserve more research efforts. Some of these, discussed in this contribution, are gully erosion inhistorical times, measuring techniques, processes of gully initiation, development and infilling, the interaction between gullyerosion with hydrological and other soil degradation processes (e.g. piping, landsliding, tillage erosion and erosion inducedby land levelling), gully erosion models, effective and efficient gully prevention and control measures. A better understandingof these aspects would allow one to better predict the impact of environmental change, gully prevention and control measureson gully erosion and gully infilling rates at a range of temporal and spatial scales and for various types of environments,and the effects of gully erosion on sediment yield, hydrological process intensities and landscape evolution.
关键词：ancient gully; monitoring technique; gully model; gully prevention; gully control
