Land use change effects on abandoned terraced soils in a Mediterranean catchment, NE Spain

Catena

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-37

  Dunjó, Gemma ^a   Pardini, Giovanni ^a   Gispert, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Land abandonment; Land use change; Mediterranean region; Semiarid environments; Soil quality indices; Terraced soils

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; TERRACE;

CAP DE CREUS; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 0038277381     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(02)00148-0     Document Type: Article

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