The natural soil drainage index: An ordinal estimate of long-term soil wetness

Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 383-409

  Schaetzl, Randall ^a   Krist, Frank ^b   Stanley, Kristine ^c   Hupy, Christina ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest ecology; GIS; Landscape scale; Modeling; Soil wetness

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE WATER CAPACITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; INDEX METHOD; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL WATER; WATER TABLE;

EID: 70450231902     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.30.5.383     Document Type: Article

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