Modelling the impact of land use change and rainfall seasonality on sediment export from an agricultural catchment of the northwestern European loess belt

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 83-94

  Evrard, Olivier ^a   Nord, Guillaume ^b   Cerdan, Olivier ^c   Souchère, Véronique ^d   Le Bissonnais, Yves ^e   Bonté, Philippe ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c BRGM   (France)

^d INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^e UMR LISAH   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Cesium 137; Erosion; Expert based model; Rainfall seasonality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; CESIUM; CONSOLIDATION; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; KINETIC ENERGY; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RESERVOIR; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THUNDERSTORM; TILLAGE;

FRANCE; NORMANDY;

EID: 77954865355     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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