The role of leaf inclination, leaf orientation and plant canopy architecture in soil particle detachment by raindrops

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1509-1520

  Foot, Kirsten ^a,b   Morgan, R P C ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Environmental Liability and Local Environment Quality Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leaf drip; Plant architecture; Splash erosion

Indexed keywords

EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SAND; SOILS; VEGETATION;

LEAF DRIP; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT CANOPY; SPLASH EROSION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CANOPY; LEAF; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; THROUGHFLOW;

EID: 28144440867     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1207     Document Type: Article

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