Soil moisture dynamics under different land uses on karst hillslope in northwest Guangxi, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1105-1111

  Chen, Hongsong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Wang, Kelin ^a   Fu, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Hillslope; Karst region of southwest China; Land use; Soil moisture dynamics; Topography

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FOREST LAND; GUANGXI; HILLSLOPES; KARST REGION OF SOUTHWEST CHINA; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; RAINY SEASONS; SAMPLING SITE; SHALLOW SOILS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL SAMPLE; SOUTHWEST CHINA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

DROUGHT; DYNAMICS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; HILLSLOPE; KARST; LAND USE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU;

EID: 77956454853     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0428-3     Document Type: Article

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