Effectiveness of grass strips in trapping suspended sediments from runoff

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1006-1013

  Pan, Chengzhong ^a,b   Ma, Lan ^a   Shangguan, Zhouping ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Flow velocity; Sediment; Slope gradient; Vegetative filter strips

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; EROSION CONTROL; FORAGE GRASS; GRASS CONTROL; LITTER LAYER; LOESS PLATEAU; MEAN FLOW VELOCITIES; ON FLOW; SEDIMENT TRAPPING; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SLOPE GRADIENTS; SOIL LOSS; SOIL SURFACES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEEP SLOPE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; VEGETATIVE FILTER STRIPS;

AGRICULTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; VELOCITY; WATER;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BUFFER ZONE; DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; INFLOW; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SLOPE ANGLE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 77954549814     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1997     Document Type: Article

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