Assessment of tillage erosion rates on steep slopes in northern Thailand

Catena

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-44

  Turkelboom, F ^a,b   Poesen, J ^b   Ohler, I ^a,b   Van Keer, K ^a,b   Ongprasert, S ^a   Vlassak, K ^b  

^a MAEJO UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

land pressure; manual tillage; northern Thailand; steep slopes; tillage erosion; weed pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031105486     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(96)00063-X     Document Type: Article

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