Ant mounds as a source of sediment on citrus orchard plantations in eastern Spain. A three-scale rainfall simulation approach

Catena

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-236

  Cerdà, Artemi ^a   Jurgensen, Martin F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Citrus; Mounds; Scale; Sediments; Water

Indexed keywords

ANT; BURROWING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HERBICIDE; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORCHARD; PLANTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION COVER;

SPAIN;

CITRUS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 79952252713     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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