Desirable Plant root traits for protecting natural and engineered slopes against landslides

Plant and Soil

Volumn 324, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-30

  Stokes, Alexia ^a   Atger, Claire ^b   Bengough, Anthony Glyn ^c   Fourcaud, Thierry ^a   Sidle, Roy C ^d  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b Pousse Conseil Domaine de Fitzgerald Le Mas Rouge   (France)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Root architecture; Slope stability; Soil cohesion; Soil mass wasting; Suction

Indexed keywords

COHESION; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; ONTOGENY; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; SLOPE STABILITY; SUCTION;

EID: 71049146249     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0159-y     Document Type: Review

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