Disturbance of biological soil crusts: Impacts on potential wind erodibility of sandy desert soils in Southeastern Utah

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-362

  Belnap, J ^a   Gillette, D A ^b  

^a US National Biological Service   (United States)

^b Air Resources Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptobiotic; Cryptogamic; Friction threshold velocity; Microbiotic; Microphytic; Soil loss

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOBIOTIC; CRYPTOGAMIC; FRICTION THRESHOLD VELOCITY; MICROBIOTIC; MICROPHYTIC; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL ERODIBILITY; SOIL LOSS; WIND EROSION;

EID: 0031432795     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199712)8:4<355::AID-LDR266>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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