Soil erosion and significance for carbon fluxes in a mountainous Mediterranean-climate watershed

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1379-1387

  Smith, S V ^a   Bullock, S H ^a   Hinojosa Corona, A ^a   Franco Vizcaino E ^a   Escoto Rodriguez M ^a   Kretzschmar, T G ^a   Farfan L M ^a   Salazar Cesena J M ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Erosion; Lateral flux; Local carbon balance; Metabolism; Mexico; Primary production; Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE); Vertical flux

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON FLUX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND COVER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WATERSHED;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; SOIL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; ALTITUDE; CARBON; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34848854297     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0615.1     Document Type: Article

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