El Niño-driven landsliding and postgrazing vegetative recovery, Santa Cruz Island, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Pinter, Nicholas ^a   Vestal, W Dean ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EL NINO; LAND USE; LANDSLIDE; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERGRAZING; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILIZATION; STORM; VEGETATION COVER;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA CRUZ ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33750289473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JF000203     Document Type: Article

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