Soil evidence for historical human-induced land degradation in West Iceland

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Gísladóttir, Gudrún ^a   Erlendsson, Egill ^a   Lal, Rattan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b Ohio State School of Environment and Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSITION; HUMAN IMPACT; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; ICELANDICS; ICELANDS; INITIAL SETTLEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL EXPOSURE; SOIL MASS; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL QUALITY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VEGETATION DEGRADATION; WATER CYCLING;

DEGRADATION; LAKES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BULK DENSITY; DECOMPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HISTORICAL RECORD; HISTOSOL; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ICELAND;

EID: 79955950240     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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