Effect of vegetation on runoff-sediment yield relationship at different spatial scales in hilly areas of the Loess Plateau, North China

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3572-3581

  Mingguo, Zheng ^a,b,c   Qiangguo, Cai ^a,b   Hao, Chen ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

hilly loess areas; land use land coverage; runoff sediment yield relationship; scale; slope measure; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548967521     PISSN: 18722032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2032(07)60075-4     Document Type: Article

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