Vegetation cover and geomorphodynamics on abandoned fields in the Central Ebro Basin (Spain)

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-277

  Sauer, Tilmann ^a   Ries, Johannes B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abandoned fields; Geomorphodynamics; Land degradation; Spatial heterogeneity; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; LAND DEGRADATION; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER;

EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 54149086893     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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