Soil surface evaporation processes under mulches of different sized gravel

Catena

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-121

  Yuan, Cuiping ^a   Lei, Tingwu ^a,b   Mao, Lili ^a   Liu, Han ^a   Wu, Yang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Gravel mulch; Gravel size; Soil surface evaporation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; EVAPORATION; GRAVEL; MULCH; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 67349285390     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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