Using 137Cs to estimate wind erosion and dust deposition on grassland in Inner Mongolia-selection of a reference site and description of the temporal variability

Plant and Soil

Volumn 351, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 293-307

  Funk, Roger ^a   Li, Yong ^b   Hoffmann, Carsten ^a   Reiche, Matthias ^a   Zhang, Zhuodong ^a,b   Li, Junjie ^b   Sommer, Michael ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dust deposition; Grassland; Reference site; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STEPPE; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; STIPA GRANDIS;

EID: 84856462679     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0964-y     Document Type: Article

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