The impact of climate change on geomorphology and desertification along a Mediterranean-arid transect

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 407-422

  Lavee, H ^a   Imeson, A C ^b   Sarah, P ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SOIL; RAINFALL; TRANSECT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0032465742     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199809/10)9:5<407::AID-LDR302>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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