Factors controlling sediment yield in China's Loess Plateau

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 816-826

  Xin, Zhongbao ^a   Yu, Xinxiao ^a   Lu, X X ^b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Loess Plateau; NDVI; Precipitation; Runoff; Sediment yield; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

LOESS PLATEAU; NDVI; PRECIPITATION; SEDIMENT YIELD; VEGETATION COVER;

RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

DATA SET; GAUGE; LAND COVER; LOESS; MORPHOMETRY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 79955614874     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2109     Document Type: Article

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