Reducing water erosion in a gypsic soil by combined use of organic amendment and shrub revegetation

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 339-350

  Marqués, M Jose ^a   Jimenez L ^a   Perez Rodriguez R ^a   Garcia Ormaechea S ^b   Bienes, R ^a  

^a Inst Madrileno Invest Agraria A   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atriplex halimus; Erosion control; Revegetation; Sewage sludge; Simulated rainfall; Spain

Indexed keywords

EROSION; KINETIC ENERGY; LAND RECLAMATION; RAIN; REVEGETATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WATER;

ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; EROSION CONTROL; GYPSIC SOIL; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SPAIN;

SOILS;

GYPSUM; REVEGETATION; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS;

EID: 23644460686     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.658     Document Type: Article

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