Using plot soil loss distribution for soil conservation design

Catena

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 172-177

  Bagarello, V ^a   Di Stefano, C ^a   Ferro, V ^a   Pampalone, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Probability distributions; Soil conservation practices design; Soil erosion; USLE

Indexed keywords

EROSION RATE; EROSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RAINFALL; RETURN PERIOD; SOIL CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ITALY;

EID: 79956089078     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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