Soil degradation factors along a Mediterranean pluviometric gradient in Southern Spain

Geomorphology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 359-368

  Ruiz Sinoga, J D ^a   Diaz, A Romero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Desertification; Erosion; PCA; Pluviometric gradient; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; TOPSOIL; WATER AVAILABILITY;

SPAIN;

EID: 77952884210     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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