The impact of land use and land cover changes on soil moisture and hydraulic conductivity along the karst hillslopes of southwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 811-820

  Chen, Xi ^a   Zhang, Zhicai ^a   Chen, Xunhong ^b   Shi, Pen ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductivity; Karst; Land use and land cover; Soil moisture; Southwest China

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BARE SOIL AREAS; BARE SOILS; BEDROCK FRACTURE; DYNAMIC PROCESS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOSYSTEM EVOLUTION; GUELPH PERMEAMETER; HILLSLOPES; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; IN-SITU; K-VALUES; KARST ENVIRONMENT; KARST LAND; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; ROCK FRAGMENTS; SILT SOIL; SLOPE ANGLES; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER HOLDINGS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VEGETATIVE COVER;

CLIMATOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS;

SOIL TESTING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BARE SOIL; BEDROCK; DEFORESTATION; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; KARST; LAND USE CHANGE; REFLECTOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

DEFORESTATION; FRACTURE; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 76249109794     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0077-6     Document Type: Article

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