Soil restoration and erosion control: Quantitative assessment and direction

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1619-1626

  Grismer, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecologic function; Erodibility; Erosion; Restoration; Runoff; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGIC FUNCTIONS; ERODIBILITY; RESTORATION PARAMETERS; SEDIMENT YIELD; STEEPER SLOPES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; FILTRATION; RESTORATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ERODIBILITY; EROSION CONTROL; FOREST SOIL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; REVEGETATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL REMEDIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; WATER EROSION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 36249015939     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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