Houben


 

Dr. Peter Houben

(December 2011)

 
 
 
 
 

Publications

Brown, A.G., Sear, D.A., Macaire, J.-J., Houben, P., Klimek, K. (in review). ‘Natural’ streams in Europe: their history, ecology and carbon sequestration.

Houben, P. (in review). Sediment budget for five millennia of tillage in the Rockenberg catchment (Wetterau loess basin, Germany).

Houben, P., Schmidt., M., Mauz, B., Stobbe, A., Lang, A. (in review). Asynchronous Holocene colluvial and alluvial aggradation: a matter of hydrosedimentary connectivity.

Houben, P., Kühl, N., Dambeck, R., Overath, J. (in revision). Rapid crater infilling of a MIS 2 maar volcano (West-Eifel Volcanic Field, Germany): Lateglacial-Holocene environmental history and geomorphic feedback mechanisms.

Houben, P., Hoinkis, R., Santisteban, J.I., Salat, C., Mediavilla, R., 2011. Combining allostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic perspectives to compile subregional records of fluvial responsiveness: the case of the sustainably entrenching Palancia River watershed (Mediterranean coast, NE Spain). Geomorphology 129, 172-191.

Houben, P., 2011. Sediment fluxes and budgets during the Holocene: quantification and modelling. Terra Nostra 2011/1, 89-90.

Houben, P., Wunderlich, J., Schrott, L., 2009. Climate and long-term human impact on sediment fluxes in watershed systems. In: Houben, P., Wunderlich, J., Schrott, L. (Eds.), Climate and long-term human impact on sediment fluxes in watershed systems. Special issue, Geomorphology 108, 1-7.

Verstraeten, G., Lang, A., Houben, P., 2009. Human impact on sediment dynamics – quantification and timing. Catena 77, 77-80.

Houben, P., 2009. Quantifier les flux sédimentaires anthropiques en utilisant l’information de changement de profils de sols. Actes des 10èmes Journées d'Etude des Sols, Strasbourg, pp. 53-54.

Houben, P., 2008. Scale linkage and contingency effects of field-scale and hillslope-scale controls of long-term soil erosion: Anthropogeomorphic sediment flux in agricultural loess watersheds of Southern Germany. In: Hudson, P., Butzer, K., Beach, T. (Eds.), Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History. Proceedings 39th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Geomorphology 101, 172-191.

Houben, P., 2008. Long-term sediment transfers: production, storage, flow, and drain over 7500 in a small agricultural catchment, Rhine system (Germany). CHR/ISI Workshop on 'Erosion, Transport and Deposition of Sediments', Berne 2008, extended abstract.

Houben, P., Schmidt, M., 2008. Deriving long-term, man-induced sediment flux for a 2,000 sqkm catchment (Rhine system, Germany) from soil data modelling. CHR/ISI Workshop on 'Erosion, Transport and Deposition of Sediments', Berne 2008, extended abstract.

Houben, P., Burggraaff, P., Hoffmann, T., Kleefeld, K., Zimmermann, A., Dikau, R., 2007. Reconstructions of Holocene land-use change and sediment budgets in the Rhine system: Focus 4 PHAROS programme 'Past Climate-Human-Environment Interactions'. PAGES Newsletter, 15(1): 17-18 .

Houben, P., 2007. Geomorphological facies reconstruction of Late Quaternary alluvia by the application of fluvial architecture concepts. Geomorphology 86: 94-114.

Hoffmann, T., Erkens, G., Cohen, K. M., Houben, P., Seidel, J., Dikau, R., 2007. Holocene floodplain sediment storage and hillslope erosion within the Rhine catchment. The Holocene 17, 105-118.

Dikau, R., Houben, P., Hoffmann, T., Schrott, L., 2007. Der Sedimenthaushalt geomorphologischer Systeme seit Beginn des menschlichen Einflusses. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. Suppl. 148, 32-40.

Houben, P., Hoffmann, T., Zimmermann, A., Dikau, R., 2006. Land use and climatic impacts on the Rhine system during the period of agriculture. Catena 66, 42–52.

Houben, P., 2006. New trends in Geomorphology - systems-based understanding of long term man-landscape interactions. PAGES Newsletter 14: 41.

Thiemeyer, H., Blümel, W.-D., Dambeck, R., Dieckmann, B., Eberle, J., Glade, T., Hecht, S., Houben, P., Moldenhauer, K.-M., Schrott, L., Schulte, A., Vogt., R., Wunderlich, J., 2005. Soils, sediments and slope processes and their effects on sediments fluxes into the river Rhine. Erdkunde 25, 184-198.

Dikau, R., Houben, P., Schrott, L., 2005. Der Sedimenthaushalt geomorphologischer Systeme seit Beginn des menschlichen Einflusses. – In: Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie (Ed.): Die Erdoberfläche, Lebens- und Gestaltungsraum des Menschen - Forschungsstrategische und programmatische Leitlinien zukünftiger geomorphologischer Forschung und Lehre: 31–38; Preprint, Heidelberg.

Doevenspeck, M., Houben, P., Lindner, P. Schlottmann, A., 2005. Bericht über das 5. Rundgespräch der DFG-Kommission zur "Zukunft der Geowissenschaften". Rundbrief Geographie 193: 3.

Salat, C., Houben, P., Junge, A., 2004. Die Eignung des Georadars (GPR) für die Untersuchung quartärerFlussablagerungen im Mittelmeerraum. 64th annual meeting Dt. Geophys. Ges., p. 404.

Houben, P., 2003. Spatio-temporally variable response of fluvial systems to Late-Pleistocene climate change: A case study from central Germany. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 2125-2140.

Houben, P., 2002. Die räumlich-zeitlich veränderte Reaktion des fluvialen Systems auf jungquartäre Klimaänderungen. Eine Fallstudie aus der Hessischen Senke. Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Geosciences/Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 189 pp. [online publication Goethe-University]

Houben, P., Nolte, S., Rittweger, H., Wunderlich, J., 2001. Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change indicated by fluvial sediments of the Hessian Depression (Central Germany). In: Maddy, D., Macklin, M.G. & Woodward, J.C. (eds.) River basin sediment systems - Archives of environmental change, Rotterdam (Balkema), pp. 249-264..

Andres, W., Bos, J.A.A., Houben, P., Kalis, A., Nolte, S., Rittweger, H., Wunderlich, J., 2001. Environmental change and fluvial activity during the Younger Dryas in Central Germany. Quaternary International 79, 89-100.

Houben, P. 2000. Lexikon der Geowissenschaften; Heidelberg (Spektrum); entries in fluvial morphology, coastal morphology, physical geography, geomorphology, ...

Houben, P. 1997: Late-glacial and Holocene fluvial sedimentation in a small upland catchment in Hesse (Germany). Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F., 41: 461-478.

 

Papers in preparation

Houben, P. (Engl. version in prep.). Retrospective quantification and spatial distribution of water- and bedload discharge during a 100-yr flood event in an Alpine mountain torrent (Gemstel creek, Kleinwalser Valley, Austria).

Wittich, V., Houben, P., Stobbe, A., Kalis, A.J. (in prep.). Holocene alluvial and pollen stratigraphy of the Seille Valley, Lothringen (France).

 

Reports, monographs

Houben, P., 2011. Stratigraphie und Sedimente des inneren und äußeren Ringgrabens (Champs de Corps, Tarquimpol, Lothringen). Bericht, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Abt. III, Goethe-Universität, 6 p.

Houben, P., 2011. Analyses pédologiques autour de Tarquimpol : Climat, environnement et agriculture au Ve siècle – Le potentiel pédostratigraphique pour analyser l’impact des changements d`exploitation du sol gallo-romaine. Rapport, Administration préfectorale, Metz, 11 p.

Houben, P., 2011. Stratigraphie et sédiments des fossés circulaires intérieur et extérieur de la fortification tardo-antique à Tarquimpol, Lorraine, « Le champ des corps », sondages 7 et 9. Rapport, Administration préfectorale, Metz, 6 p.

Houben, P. 2011. The Human Imprint on Long-Cultivated Landscapes: Sediment Redistribution in Coupled Human-Natural Transfer Systems (Wetterau loess basin, Gemany). Habilitationsschrift, X+211 p.

Houben, P., 2010. Retrospektive Bemessung der Wasser- und Geschiebetransporte im Gemstel-Wildbach (Kleinwalsertal) beim Niederschlagsereignis im August 2005. Unpublished project report, 39 p. (for local authorities and Vorarlberg State Survey).

Houben, P., Hoinkis, P., Salat, C., Junge, A., Wunderlich, J., 2009. Allostratigraphy, fluvial change, and its controls in the Late Quaternary Rio Palancia watershed (986-km2, Mediterranean coast of NE Spain). DFG project report, 131 p.

Houben, P., Dambeck, D., Kuehl, N., Overath, J., 2008. The Late Quaternary Eichholz maar event—crater sedimentation, geomorphic response, and vegetation history. DFG project report DA-1031/1-1, KU 1973/3-1, 35 p. (Engl. publication in prep.).

 

Guest editor

Houben, P., Wunderlich, J., Schrott, L., (Eds.) 2009. Climate and long-term human impact on sediment fluxes in watershed systems. Geomorphology, special issue, 108.

Verstraeten, G., Lang, A., Houben, P., (Eds.) 2009. Human impact on sediment dynamics – quantification and timing. Catena, special issue, 77.