The effect of slope angle on splash detachment in an unmanaged Japanese cypress plantation forest

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 576-587

  Mizugaki, Shigeru ^a   Nanko, Kazuki ^b   Onda, Yuichi ^b  

^a PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interrill erosion; Japanese cypress; Slope angle; Splash detachment; Throughfall intensity; Unmanaged plantation forest

Indexed keywords

INTERRILL EROSION; PLANTATION FORESTS; SLOPE ANGLES; SPLASH DETACHMENT; THROUGHFALL;

SOILS;

PONDING;

EROSION RATE; FOREST CANOPY; INTERRILL EROSION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SLOPE ANGLE; SOIL CRUSTING; STEMFLOW; THROUGHFALL;

JAPAN;

CUPRESSUS;

EID: 77949578160     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7552     Document Type: Article

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