Soil detachment and transport on field- and laboratory-scale interrill areas: Erosion processes and the size-selectivity of eroded sediment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 929-939

  Issa, O Malam ^a   Bissonnais, Y Le ^b   Planchon, O ^c   Favis Mortlock, David ^d   Silvera, Norbert ^c   Wainwright, John ^e  

^a Centre de Recherches en Environnement et Agronomie   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interrill erosion; Runoff; Sediment size distribution; Soil crusting; Splash; Wash

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ERODED SEDIMENT; INTERRILL EROSION; SEDIMENT SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT; SOIL CRUSTING;

EROSION;

ARID REGIONS; EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

INTERRILL EROSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINDROP; SANDY SOIL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CRUSTING; SOIL EROSION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33746352777     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1303     Document Type: Article

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