Modeling soil erosion and its response to land-use change in hilly catchments of the Chinese Loess Plateau

Geomorphology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 239-248

  Feng, Xiaoming ^a   Wang, Yafeng ^a   Chen, Liding ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a   Bai, Gangshuan ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Land use; Loess Plateau; Soil erosion; WATEM SEDEM model

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; CESIUM ISOTOPE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HILL; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; POLICY APPROACH; SOIL EROSION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 77952883946     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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