Natural recovery from accelerated forest ditch and stream bank erosion five years after harvesting of plantation forest on Plynlimon, mid-Wales

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 349-357

  Stott, Tim ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest ditch erosion; Forestry; Plynlimon; Stream bank erosion; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; HARVESTING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

EROSION MONITORING; EROSION RATES; PLANTATION FORESTS; STREAM BANK EROSION;

FORESTRY;

BANK EROSION; REFORESTATION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

EROSION; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PLANTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CEREDIGION; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PLYNLIMON; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15844419697     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1163     Document Type: Article

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