Impact of planting grass on terrene roads to avoid soil erosion

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-216

  Cao, Carl Shixiong ^a   Chen, Li ^b   Gao, Wangsheng ^a   Chen, Yuanquan ^a   Yan, Maochao ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Grass road; Landscape ecology; Loess Hilly gully region; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; MAINTENANCE; SEED; SOILS;

GRASS ROAD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOESS HILLY-GULLY REGION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EROSION CONTROL; GRASS; GULLY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LOESS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SOIL EROSION;

ECOLOGY; GRASSES; SEEDS; SOIL EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHAANXI; YANAN;

BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; ELYMUS; ELYMUS SIBIRICUS; LESPEDEZA; POA; POA ANNUA; SECURIGERA VARIA;

EID: 33750185124     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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