The influence of competition between lichen colonization and erosion on the evolution of soil surfaces in the Tabernas badlands (SE Spain) and its landscape effects

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 252-266

  Lazaro R ^a   Canton Y ^b   Sole Benet A ^a   Bevan, J ^c   Alexander, R ^c   Sancho, L G ^d   Puigdefabregas J ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Climate change; Geomorphic process; Microclimate; Runoff; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

BADLANDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LICHEN; MICROCLIMATE; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL EROSION;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TABERNAS;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 54149105536     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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