Detecting water yield variability due to the small proportional land use and land cover changes in a watershed on the Loess Plateau, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3083-3092

  Wang, Shengping ^a   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Sun, Ge ^b   McNulty, Steven G ^b   Zhang, Manliang ^c  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Prediction interval; Small proportional land use and land cover change (SPLULCC); Small watershed; The Loess Plateau; Water yield

Indexed keywords

PREDICTION INTERVAL; SMALL PROPORTIONAL LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE (SPLULCC); SMALL WATERSHED; THE LOESS PLATEAU; WATER YIELD;

CATCHMENTS; EROSION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOILS; SURVEYS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 70350132293     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7420     Document Type: Article

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