Carbon retention by check dams: Regional scale estimation

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-146

  Lü, Yihe ^a   Sun, Ranhao ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a   Wang, Yafeng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Check dam; Loess Plateau; Sediment; Soil erosion; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLING; CHECK DAM; LOESS PLATEAU; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EROSION; FOSSIL FUELS; RESEARCH; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DAMS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DAM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL FUEL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84860282992     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.03.020     Document Type: Article

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