Effects of canopy and roots of patchy distributed artemisia capillaris on runoff, sediment, and the spatial variability of soil erosion at the plot scale

Soil Science

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 409-415

  Zhang, Guanhua ^a,b   Liu, Guobin ^a,b   Wang, Guoliang ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Artemisia capillaris; erosion deposition; runoff and sediment; spatial variability; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; LABORATORY METHOD; PROBE; RUNOFF; SHRUB; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA CAPILLARIS;

EID: 84862182207     PISSN: 0038075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SS.0b013e3182539713     Document Type: Article

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