Can seed removal through soil erosion explain the scarcity of vegetation in the Chinese Loess Plateau?

Geomorphology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 35-40

  Jiao, Juying ^a,b   Han, Luyan ^b   Jia, Yanfeng ^b   Wang, Ning ^b   Lei, Dong ^a   Li, Linyu ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Natural revegetation; Rainfall simulation experiment; Seed loss; Seed shape; Seed translocation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; RAINFALL; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SEEDLING; SOIL EROSION; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 79958696951     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.033     Document Type: Article

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