Successes of soil conservation in the Canadian Prairies highlighted by a historical decline in blowing dust

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fox, Thomas A ^a   Barchyn, Thomas E ^a   Hugenholtz, Chris H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Prairies; dust; land use management; soil conservation; wind erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857970863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014008     Document Type: Article

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