Simulation of land use-soil interactive effects on water and sediment yields at watershed scale

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 328-344

  Wang, Xixi ^a   Shang, Shiyou ^b   Yang, Wanhong ^c   Clary, Calvin R ^a   Yang, Dawen ^d  

^a TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BMPs; Brush control; Sediment; Soil; SWAT; Water supply; Watershed

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; BMPS; CALIBRATED MODEL; CENTRAL TEXAS; DISTRIBUTED WATERSHED MODELS; DRAINAGE AREA; GAUGING STATIONS; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT LOADING; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STREAM CHANNELS; STUDY AREAS; SWAT; SWAT MODEL; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; UPLAND SOIL; VEGETATION MANAGEMENT; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED SCALE;

BRUSHES; DEWATERING; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; SURVEYS; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WATERSHEDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; PERMEABILITY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STREAM CHANNEL; STREAMFLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATER YIELD; WATERSHED;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 76249114555     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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