Field monitoring of vegetation characteristics related to surface changes in the Yuma Desert, Arizona, and at the Jornada experimental range in the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1598, 1999, Pages 71-84

  Musick, H Brad ^a  

^a Air Quality Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN PROCESS; SURFACE LAYER; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032834322     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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