Tree uprooting: Review of types and patterns of soil disturbance

Physical Geography

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 277-291

  Schaetzl, Randall J ^a   Burns, Scott F ^b   Small, Thomas W ^c   Johnson, Donald L ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Frostberg State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Mass wasting; Microtopography; Pedoturbation; Pit mound topography

Indexed keywords

MASS WASTING; PEDOTURBATION; PIT AND MOUND MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SOIL DISTURBANCE PATTERN; SOIL MIXING; TREE UPROOTING; TREETHROW MOUND LONGEVITY;

EID: 0025587398     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.1990.10642407     Document Type: Article

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