Dried earth layers of artificial forestland in the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi Province

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 114-126

  Zhao, Jingbo ^a,b   Du, Juan ^a   Chen, Baoqun ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Cause of formation; Dried earth layer; Effective factors; Loess Plateau; Soil moisture zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947309083     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-007-0114-x     Document Type: Article

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