Soil Erosion Potential after Fire and Rehabilitation Treatments in Greece

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-250

  Myronidis, Dimitrios I ^a   Emmanouloudis, Dimitrios A ^a   Mitsopoulos, Ioannis A ^b   Riggos, Evangelos E ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

GIS; Greece; Rehabilitation treatment; Soil erosion; Universal Soil Loss Equation; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FIRES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS;

EROSION CONTROL TREATMENTS; GREECE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION POTENTIAL; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; WILDLAND FIRE;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EROSION CONTROL; GIS; SOIL EROSION; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; WILDFIRE;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; CHALCIDICE [(ADS) CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; CHALKIDIKI PENINSULA; GREECE; KASSANDRA PENINSULA;

KASSANDRA;

EID: 77954242562     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9199-1     Document Type: Article

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