Challenges in relating land use to sediment yield in the Upper Yangtze

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 410, Issue , 1999, Pages 269-277

  Higgitt, D L ^a   Lu, X X ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land use; Sediment yield; Soil erosion; Three Gorges Project; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND USE; SEDIMENT YIELD;

CHINA;

EID: 0033190498     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003850418543     Document Type: Article

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