The role of vegetative barriers such as fascines and dense shrub hedges in catchment management to reduce runoff and erosion effects: Experimental evidence of efficiency, and conditions of use

•Fascines and shrub hedges are vegetative barriers used in north-west France.•Their hydraulic and sedimentation efficiency has been assessed.•Their main benefits are flow slowdown and suspended sediment trapping.•Their most relevant situations at the catchment scale are given.•Combining fascines, he...

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