Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes - from a bundle of roots to tree stands

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-367

  Schwarz, M ^a,b   Lehmann, P ^a,b   Or, D ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fiber bundle model; Root distribution; Root reinforcement; Shallow landslides; Spruce

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FIBER BUNDLE MODELS; HILLSLOPES; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; LATERAL REINFORCEMENT; LATERAL ROOTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANT-SOIL INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROTECTION FORESTS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; ROOT DIAMETERS; ROOT DISTRIBUTION; ROOT REINFORCEMENT; ROOT SURFACES; ROOT SYSTEM; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SILVICULTURAL MEASURE; SOIL MASS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL TYPES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEEP SLOPE; STRENGTH DISTRIBUTION; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS; TREE ROOT; TREE STANDS; UPSCALING;

FORESTRY; LANDSLIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES;

REINFORCEMENT;

HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; MODELING; ROOT SYSTEM; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

CURVES; DISTRIBUTION; EARTH MOVEMENT; FORESTRY; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOISTURE; PICEA; REINFORCEMENT; ROOTS; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE; SOIL;

PICEA;

EID: 77949611830     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1927     Document Type: Article

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