Climatic and anthropogenic controls of topsoil features in the semi-arid East Asian steppe

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Hongyan ^a   Yin, Yi ^a   Tian, Yuhong ^a   Ren, Ji ^a   Wang, Hongya ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTROLS; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN DISTURBANCE INDEX; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE; TOPSOIL;

SOILS;

AFFORESTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAIN SIZE; ORGANIC CARBON; SAMPLING; SEMIARID REGION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STEPPE; TOPSOIL;

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

EID: 44249096617     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032980     Document Type: Article

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