Validating erosion rate estimates provided by caesium-137 measurements for two small forested catchments in Calabria, Southern Italy

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-408

  Porto, Paolo ^a,b   Walling, Des E ^a   Ferro, Vito ^c   Di Stefano, Costanza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caesium 137; Conversion models; Erosion rates; Italy; Radionuclides; Sediment yield; Soil erosion; Validation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; DIFFUSION; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS;

SOIL EROSION;

FORESTRY;

CESIUM; FORESTED CATCHMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION;

ITALY;

EID: 0043241013     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.561     Document Type: Article

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