Factors controlling the spatial patterns of soil moisture in a grazed semi-arid steppe investigated by multivariate geostatistics

Ecohydrology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-48

  Zhao, Ying ^a,b   Peth, Stephan ^a   Hallett, Paul ^c   Wang, Xiaoyan ^a   Giese, Marc ^a   Gao, Yingzhi ^a   Horn, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grazing intensity; Inner Mongolia; Scale dependency; Soil moisture; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GRAZING INTENSITY; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INNER MONGOLIA; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; MULTIVARIATE GEOSTATISTICS; PASTURE MANAGEMENT; PLANT PROPERTIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SCALE DEPENDENCY; SEMI ARID; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; VOLUMETRIC MOISTURE CONTENT;

AGRICULTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ECOHYDROLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAZING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PASTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77955601476     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.121     Document Type: Article

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