Modelling soil detachment rates in rainfed agrosystems in the south-central Pyrenees

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1079-1089

  Lopez Vicente M ^a   Navas, A ^a   Machin J ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

MMF model; Rainfed crop; RMMF model; Runoff detachment; Soil erosion; Spanish Pyrenees; Splash detachment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONSERVATION; EROSION; FORECASTING; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PHOTORESISTS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER CONSERVATION;

EROSION MODELLING; INPUT PARAMETERS; LAND COVER; MMF MODEL; MODEL PREDICTIONS; PYRENEES; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; RAINFED; RAINFED CROP; RMMF MODEL; RUNOFF DETACHMENT; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL DETACHMENT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL LOSSES; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOIL SURFACES; SPANISH; SPANISH PYRENEES; SPLASH DETACHMENT; SPLASH EROSION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; EROSION; LAND USE; MODELING; RUNOFF;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

HORDEUM;

EID: 49549124033     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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