Towards a process-based evaluation of land vulnerability to soil degradation in Italy

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1216-1227

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Bajocco, Sofia ^a   Ceccarelli, Tomaso ^a   Zitti, Marco ^a   Perini, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental indicators; Geographical scale; Mediterranean Europe; MSDVI; Multivariate analysis; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE; MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE; MSDVI; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION;

DEGRADATION; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; BIOINDICATOR; COMPACTION; FIELD SURVEY; GIS; LAND EVALUATION; MEDITERRANEAN SOIL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; THEMATIC MAPPING; VULNERABILITY;

ITALY;

EID: 79955814181     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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