Anisotropy of Soil Hydraulic Properties Along Arable Slopes1 1 Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 40071044) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (No. ZE 254/4).

Pedosphere

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-362

  JING, Yuan Shu ^a   ZHANG, Bin ^a   THIMM, A ^b   ZEPP, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

slope hydrology; spatial variation; unsaturated hydraulic conductivity; water retention curve

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CATENA; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER RETENTION; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 43049167181     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(08)60025-9     Document Type: Article

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