Modelling slaking sensitivity to assess the degradation potential of humid tropic soils under intense rainfall

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-57

  Wuddivira, M N ^a   Ekwue, E I ^a   Stone, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Humid tropics; Intense rainfall; Mathematical model; Slaking pressures; Slaking sensitivity; Slaking sensitivity ranking framework; Soil degradation; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CLAY CONTENT; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMPREHENSIVE TESTING; DEGRADATION POTENTIAL; DEVELOPED MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EXCHANGEABLE SODIUM PERCENTAGES; FAST WETTING; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HUMID TROPICS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; RAPID ASSESSMENT; SOIL DATA; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SOIL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION; TRINIDAD; TROPICAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL SOILS;

AGRONOMY; DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; SEALING (FINISHING); SOIL TESTING; SOILS; TROPICS; WETTING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMID TROPICS; ION EXCHANGE; MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLAKING; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL SOIL; WETTING;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 77953677599     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.961     Document Type: Article

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