In Review
* Guns, M., and V. Vanacker, in review. Logistic regression applied to natural hazards: the development of rare event logistic regression with replications. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
* Balthazar, V., Vanacker, V., and E. Lambin, in review. Evaluation and parametrization of ATCOR3 topographic correction method for forest cover mapping in mountain areas. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
De Baets, S., Meersmans, J., Vanacker, V., and K. Van Oost, in review. Spatial variability and response of soil organic carbon stocks to land abandonment and erosion in mountainous drylands. Soil use and Management.
Molina, A., Vanacker, V., Govers, G. Balthazar, V., Mora, D. and A. Van Rompaey, in review. Complex land cover change, water and sediment yield in a degraded Andean environment. Journal of Hydrology.
Bellin, N., Vanacker, V., and S. De Baets, in review. Anthropogenic and climatic impact on Holocene sediment fluxes in SE Spain. Quaternary International.
In Press
De Baets, S., Van Oost, K., Baumann, K., Meersmans, J., Vanacker, V. and C. Rumpel (in press) Lignin signature as a function of land abandonment and erosion in dry luvisols of SE Spain. Catena.
Published
* Haas, E.M., Bartholome, E., Lambin, E., and Vanacker V. (2011). Remotely sensed surface water extent as an indicator of short-term changes in ecohydrological processes in sub-Saharan Western Africa. Remote Sensing of the Environment 115: 3436-3445. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.007
* Bellin, N, Vanacker, V, van Wesemael, B, Solé-Benet, A and Bakker, M (2011). Natural and anthropogenic controls on soil erosion in the Internal Betic Cordillera (southeast Spain). Catena (in press).doi:10.1016/j.catena.2011.05.022
* Sougnez, N., Van Wesemael, B., and Vanacker, V., 2011. Low erosion rates measured for steep, sparsely vegetated catchments in southeast Spain. Catena 84 : 1-11.doi:10.1016/j.catena.2010.08.010.
* Sougnez N., and Vanacker V., 2011. The topographic signature of Quaternary tectonic uplift in the Ardennes massif (western Europe). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 15: 1095–1107. doi:10.5194/hess-15-1095-2011
* Sougnez, N., and Vanacker, V., 2010. Spatial variability in channel and slope morphology within the Ardennes Massif, and its link with tectonics. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 7, 1–27. doi:10.5194/hessd-7-1-2010
Reinhardt L, Jerolmack D, Cardinale, BJ, Vanacker V, and Wright J., 2010. Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape : feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology. Earth surface processes and Landforms 35: 78-101. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1912
Bamutaze Y, Tenywa M.M, Majaliwa M.J.G., Bagoora F., Vanacker V, Magunda M., Obando J., and Wasige J.E., 2010. The effect of cropping system and slope gradient on measured and predicted soil water infiltration rates on Mt. Elgon, Eastern Uganda. Catena 80: 122-130. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2009.09.006
Molina A, Govers G, Van den Putte A, Poesen J and Vanacker V. 2009. Assessing the reduction of the hydrological connectivity of gully systems through vegetation restoration: field experiments and numerical modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Science 13: 1823-1836. www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/1823/2009
* Bellin N, van Wesemael B, Meerkerk A, Vanacker V and Gonzalez Barbera G. 2009. The decay of soil and water conservation structures. A case study from south east Spain. Catena 76 : 114-121. DOI : 10.1016/j.catena.2008.10.002
Molina A, Govers G, Cisneros F. and Vanacker V , 2009. Effectiveness of vegetation for sediment deposition and storage in gully beds in degraded Andean Environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 755-767. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1747.
Norton KP, and Vanacker V, 2009. Effect of terrain smoothing on topographic shielding correction factors for cosmogenic nuclide derived estimates of basin-averaged erosion rates. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34 : 145-154. DOI : 10.1002/esp.1700.
Vandenberghe, J., and Vanacker, V., 2008. Editorial: Towards a system approach in the study of river catchments. Geomorphology 98: 173-175. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.01.025.
Molina, A., Govers, G., Poesen, J., Van Hemelryck, H., De Bievre, B., Vanacker, V, 2008. Environmental Variables Controlling Spatial Variation in Sediment Yield in a Central Andean Mountain Area. Geomorphology 98: 176-186. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.12.025.
Vanacker V, von Blanckenburg F, Govers G and Kubik PW, 2007. Transient landscape evolution following uplift in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Geochimica and Cosmogenica Acta 71: A1052.
Molina, A., Govers, G., Vanacker, V., Poesen, J., Zeelmaekers, E., and Cisneros, F., 2007. Impact of vegetation on runoff generation on mountain slopes. Catena 71: 357-370. DOI:10.1016/j.catena.2007.04.002
Lupo, F., Linderman, M., Vanacker, V., Bartholome, E., and Lambin, E., 2007. Categorization of land-cover change processes based on phenological indicators extracted from time series of vegetation index data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28: 2469-2483. DOI: 10.1080/01431160600921943
Vanacker, V., von Blanckenburg, F., Govers, G., Molina, A., Poesen, J., Deckers, J., Kubik, P., 2007. Restoring natural vegetation reverts mountain erosion to natural levels. Geology 35: 303-306. DOI: 10.1130/G23109A
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Molina, A., Poesen, J., Deckers, J., 2007. Spatial variation of suspended sediment concentration in a tropical Andean river system: the Paute River, southern Ecuador. Geomorphology 87: 53-67. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.06.042
Vanacker, V, Govers, G., 2007 Editorial: Introduction to Land Use Change and Geomorphic, Soil and Water Processes in Tropical Mountain Areas. Geomorphology 87: 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.06.038
Van Den Eeckhout, M., Poesen, J., Verstraeten, G., Vanacker, V., Moeyersons, J., Nyssen, J., van Beek, L.P.H., Vandekerckhove, L., 2007. Use of LIDAR-derived images for mapping old landslides under forest. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 754-769. DOI:10.1002/esp.1417
Vanacker, V., von Blanckenburg, F., Hewawasam, T., Kubik, P.W., 2007. Geomorphic development of the Sri Lanka Central Highlands. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253: 402-414. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.003
Vanacker, V., Linderman, M., Lupo, F., Lambin, E.F., Flasse, S., 2005. Interpretation of global vegetation dynamics by analysing change in vegetation index data in response to inter- and intra-annual climate fluctuations. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14: 123- 135.
Vanacker, V., Molina, A., Govers, G., Van Esch, L., Poesen, J., Dercon, G. And Deckers, J., 2005. River channel response to short-term human-induced change in landscape connectivity in Andean ecosystems. Geomorphology, 72: 340-353. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.05.013
Van Den Eeckhout, M., Poesen, J., Verstraeten, G., Vanacker, V., Moeyersons, J., Nyssen, J., van Beek, L.P.H., 2005. The effectiveness of hillshade maps and expert knowledge in mapping old deep-seated landslides. Geomorphology, 67: 351-363. DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.11.001
Bakker, M., Govers, G., Kosmas, C., Vanacker, V., van Oost, K., and Rounsevell, M., 2005. Soil erosion as driver of land use change. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 105: 467-481. DOI:10.1016/j.agee.2004.07.009
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Poesen, J., Deckers, J., Dercon, G., Loaiza, G., 2003. The impact of environmental change on the intensity and spatial pattern of water erosion in a semi-arid mountainous environment, Catena 51: 329 - 347.
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Barros, S., Poesen, J., Deckers, J., 2003. The effect of short-term socio-economic and demographic changes on landuse dynamics and its corresponding geomorphic response with relation to water erosion in a tropical mountainous catchment, Ecuador, Landscape Ecology 18: 1-15.
Vanacker, V., Vanderschaeghe, M., Govers, G., Willems, E., Poesen, J., Deckers, J, De Bievre, B., 2003. Linking hydrological, infinite slope stability and land use change models through GIS for assessing the impact of deforestation on landslide susceptibility in High Andean watersheds. Geomorphology 52: 299-315.
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Van Peer, P., Verbeek, C., Desmet, J., Reyniers, J., 2001. Using Monte Carlo simulation for the environmental analysis of small archaeological datasets, with the Mesolithic in Northeast Belgium as a case-study. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 661-669.
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Tacuri, E., Poesen, J., Dercon, G., Cisneros, F., 2000. Using sequential aerial photographs to detect land use changes in the Austro Ecuatoriano, Revue de Géographie Alpine 3: 65-75.
Book Chapters
Vanacker, V., 2011. Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology : Land Use and Sediment Yield. In: J. Schröder (Ed.). Treatise on geomorphology, Elsevier.
Vanacker, V., 2011. Suspended sediment concentration. In: Singh, Vijay P., Singh, Pratap; Haritashya, and Umesh Kumar (Eds.), 2011. Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, Springer, ISBN: 978-90-481-2643-9.
Vanacker, V., Govers, G., Van Peer, P., 2001. Environmental control on mesolithic location behaviour in the north-east of Belgium. In: T. Darvill and M. Gojda (Eds.), One Land, many Landscapes, British Archaeological reports No. 987, Archaeopress, Oxford.