Degradation of Soil Properties due to Erosion on Sloping Land in Southern Jiangsu Province, China

Pedosphere

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-26

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Peng, Bu Zhuo ^b   Gao, Xiang ^b   Yang, Hao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

137Cs; Coarser soils; Nutrients; Soil degradation; Soil layer

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; HILLSLOPE; LAND DEGRADATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU;

EID: 1342288730     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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