Spatial variability of soil total nitrogen and soil total phosphorus under different land uses in a small watershed on the Loess Plateau, China

Geoderma

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 141-149

  Wang, Yunqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Xingchang ^a,b,c   Huang, Chuanqin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Land use; Multivariate statistics; Spatial variability; The Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FARMS; FIRE HAZARDS; LANDFORMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

DIFFERENT LAND USE TYPES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATIONS; GEOSTATISTICAL METHODS; GEOSTATISTICS; LAND USE CHANGES; LAND USE TYPES; LITTLE RESEARCHES; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; NORTH CHINAS; PLANT GROWTHS; SAMPLING DESIGNS; SHRUBLAND; SLOPE ASPECTS; SMALL WATERSHEDS; SOIL FERTILITIES; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBONS; SOIL PARTICLES; SOIL QUALITIES; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TOTAL NITROGENS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURES; THE LOESS PLATEAU; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHED SCALE;

LAND USE;

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EUTROPHICATION; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JILIN; LIUDAOGOU BASIN; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 62049084628     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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