Agricultural land-use patterns and soil erosion vulnerability of watershed units in Vietnam's northern highlands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1311-1325

  Vezina, Karine ^a   Bonn, Ferdinand ^a   Van, Cu Pham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Erosion dynamics; GIS; Scaling in space and time; Tropical environment; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL VARIATION; GIS; LAND USE; POPULATION GROWTH; RUNOFF; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; WATER EROSION; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

GLYCINE MAX; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 33749322640     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-0023-x     Document Type: Article

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