A study of soil surface characteristics in a small watershed in the hilly, gullied area on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Catena

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 31-44

  Liu, Guobin ^a,b   Xu, Mingxiang ^a   Ritsema, Coen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

LISEM model; Soil surface characteristics; Temporal and spatial variation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STABILITY; INFILTRATION; LAND USE; SOIL EROSION; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0346127474     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(03)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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