Water repellency as run-off and soil detachment controlling factor in a dry-Mediterranean hillslope (South of Spain)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2137-2142

  Martínez Murillo, Juan Francisco ^a,b   Ruiz Sinoga, José Damián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dry Mediterranean climate; Rainfall simulation; Runoff; Soil detachment; Unburnt Mediterranean vegetation; Water repellency

Indexed keywords

MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; RAINFALL SIMULATION; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SOIL DETACHMENT; WATER REPELLENCY;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

SOIL POLLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HILLSLOPE; INFILTRATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERLAND FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATURATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

SPAIN;

CISTUS; CISTUS MONSPELIENSIS; HORTONIA;

EID: 77954357435     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7636     Document Type: Article

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