Land degradation assessment by geo-spatially modeling different soil erodibility equations in a semi-arid catchment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 180, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 201-215

  Saygın, Selen Deviren ^a   Basaran, Mustafa ^b   Ozcan, Ali Ugur ^c   Dolarslan, Melda ^c   Timur, Ozgur Burhan ^c   Yilman, F Ebru ^a   Erpul, Gunay ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CANKIRI KARATEKIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Catchment scale; Degradation; Geospatial analysis; RUSLE prediction technology; Soil erodibility

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEGRADATION; EROSION; LAND USE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENT SCALE; EMPIRICAL REGRESSION MODEL; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING; PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS; SOIL ERODIBILITY;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

RAIN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CATCHMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; LAND DEGRADATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CANKIRI; TURKEY;

EID: 79961169315     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1782-z     Document Type: Article

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