Responses of water erosion to rainfall extremes and vegetation types in a loess semiarid hilly area, NW China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1780-1791

  Wei, Wei ^a   Chen, Liding ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a   Lü, Yihe ^a   Gong, Jie ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Loess semiarid hilly area; Rainfall extremes; Runoff; Soil erosion; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BUFFERING CAPACITIES; EROSION RATES; EXTREME EVENTS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HILLY AREAS; LOESS SEMIARID HILLY AREA; LONG DURATION; NW CHINA; PIONEER SPECIES; RAIN DEPTH; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL EXTREMES; SEA BUCKTHORN; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION DYNAMICS; SOIL WATER; SPRING WHEAT; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER EROSION; WHEATGRASS; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEAWATER; SOILS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EROSION;

EROSION RATE; LOESS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINSTORM; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION COVER; WATER EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHAMNACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 65949107319     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7294     Document Type: Article

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