Field investigation of surface sand and dust movement over different sandy grasslands in the Otindag Sandy Land, China

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1225-1233

  Liu, Shulin ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Chen, Guangting ^a   Guo, Jian ^a   Xue, Xian ^a   Ma, Shaoxiu ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Otindag Sandy Land; Sand and dust movement; Sand transport rate; Sandy grasslands; Threshold wind speed; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDFORMS; SOILS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; VEGETATION; WIND;

CHINA; DESERTIFICATION; DUST MOVEMENT; OTINDAG SANDY LAND; SAND TRANSPORT RATE; SANDY GRASSLANDS; THRESHOLD WIND SPEED; VEGETATION COVER;

SAND;

DUNE; DUST; FIELD SURVEY; GRAIN SIZE; GRASSLAND; MOVEMENT; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL CRUST; VEGETATION COVER; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; OTINDAG;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38049037943     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0711-0     Document Type: Article

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