Assessment of the effects of vegetation on soil erosion risk by water: A case of study of the Batta watershed in Tunisia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 707-719

  Kefi, Mohamed ^a   Yoshino, Kunihiko ^a   Setiawan, Yudi ^a   Zayani, Khemaies ^b   Boufaroua, Mohamed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^c Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Erosion model; GIS; Remote sensing; Soil erosion risk; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EROSION MODELS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEMIARID AREA; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL ERODIBILITY; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION RISK; STEEP SLOPE; SUMMER SEASON; TUNISIA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION COVERAGE; VEGETATION INDEX;

ARID REGIONS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATERSHEDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLIMATIC REGION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATERSHED;

TUNISIA;

EID: 80052806935     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0891-x     Document Type: Article

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