Pedogenetic investigation of soil degradation on a deforested loess hillslope of Golestan Province, Northern Iran

Geoderma

Volumn 167-168, Issue , 2011, Pages 274-283

  Khormali, Farhad ^a   Ajami, Mohammad ^a  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Loess; Micromorphology; Soil change; Soil genesis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ALFISOLS; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; DIFFERENT SLOPES; FOREST AREA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST LAND; HILLSLOPES; INCEPTISOLS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGIES; MOLLISOLS; NEAR-SURFACE; SEVERE EROSION; SLOPE POSITIONS; SMECTITES; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL GENESIS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE MOVEMENT; SURFACE SOIL;

CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; LAND USE; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALFISOL; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEFORESTATION; FLOODING; FOREST SOIL; HILLSLOPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LEACHING; LOESS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLLISOL; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOLOGY; SMECTITE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VERMICULITE;

CLAY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; EROSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LAND USE; POLLUTION; SOIL;

GOLESTAN; IRAN;

EID: 80155211193     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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