Rainfall harvesting on slopes using contour furrows with plastic-covered transverse ridges for growing Caragana korshinskii in the semiarid region of China

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 539-544

  Li, X Y ^a   Zhao, W W ^a   Song, Y X ^b   Wang, W ^a   Zhang, X Y ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Loess plateau; Runoff concentration; Shrub; Soil water storage

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; HARVESTING; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

LOESS PLATEAU; RUNOFF CONCENTRATION; SHRUB; SOIL WATER STORAGE;

RAIN;

ARID REGIONS; HARVESTING; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; RAINWATER; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SOIL WATER; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

CARAGANA; CARAGANA KORSHINSKII;

EID: 42049093012     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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