Relationships between climate and soil hydrological and erosional characteristics along climatic gradients in Mediterranean limestone areas

Geomorphology

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 123-134

  Cerda A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; EROSION; HYDROLOGY; LIMESTONE; SOIL PROPERTY;

GREECE; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 0032414599     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00033-6     Document Type: Article

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