Land cover changes and shallow landsliding in the flysch sector of the Spanish Pyrenees

Geomorphology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 250-259

  García Ruiz, José M ^a   Beguería, Santiago ^b   Alatorre, Luis Carlos ^a   Puigdefábregas, Juan ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Pyrenees; Shallow landslides; Soil strength; Sub alpine belt

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FLYSCH; LAND COVER; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL STRENGTH;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 78349310981     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.03.036     Document Type: Article

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