Effectiveness of biological geotextiles for soil and water conservation in different agro-environments

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 495-504

  Bhattacharyya, R ^a   Fullen, M A ^a   Booth, C A ^a   Kertesz, A ^b   Toth, A ^b   Szalai, Z ^b   Jakab, G ^b   Kozma, K ^b   Jankauskas, B ^c   Jankauskiene, G ^c   Buhmann C ^d   Paterson, G ^d   Mulibana, E ^d   Nell, J P ^d   Van Der Merwe, G M E ^d   Guerra, A J T ^e   Mendonca, J K S ^e   Guerra, T T ^e   Sathler, R ^e   Bezerra, J F R ^e   Peres, S M ^e   Yi, Z ^f   Yongmei, L ^f   Li, T ^f   Panomtarachichigul, M ^g   Peukrai, S ^g   Thu, D C ^h   Cuong, T H ^h   Toan, T T ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c Kaltinenai Research Station of the LIA   (Lithuania)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^h VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Biological geotextiles; Buffer strips; Different environments; Palm mat geotextiles; Reduction in sediment yield; Runoff volume

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; BUFFER STRIP; BUFFER ZONES; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUNGARY; RICE STRAW AND MAIZE STALK; RUNOFF REDUCTION; RUNOFF VOLUME; RUNOFF VOLUMES; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION RATE; SOIL LOSS; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA; THAILAND; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIET NAM; WATER EROSION;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EROSION; GEOTEXTILES; HERBICIDES; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BUFFER ZONE; EROSION CONTROL; EROSION RATE; GEOTEXTILE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION;

EUROPE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH ASIA;

BORASSUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80053199103     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1097     Document Type: Article

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