Investigating erosion rates within a Japanese cypress plantation using Cs-137 and Pb-210ex measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Fukuyama, Tajiro ^a   Onda, Yuichi ^b   Takenaka, Chisato ^c   Walling, Desmond E ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; EROSION RATE; EVERGREEN TREE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GULLY EROSION; OVERLAND FLOW; PLANTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

CUPRESSUS;

EID: 50849104299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000657     Document Type: Article

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