Controls on a scale explicit analysis of sheet erosion

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 847-854

  Oakes, E G M ^a   Hughes, J C ^a   Jewitt, G P W ^a   Lorentz, S A ^a   Chaplot, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; BULK DENSITY; CONTROLLING FACTORS; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DATA VARIANCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EROSION MITIGATION; EROSION MODELLING; EX SITU; EXPLICIT ANALYSIS; HILLSLOPES; IN-SITU; LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTIONS; MAIN CONTROLLING FACTORS; PROCESS-BASED MODELLING; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINY SEASONS; RUNOFF RATES; SCALE RATIO; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT EROSION; SEDIMENT LOSS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL CLAY CONTENT; SOIL LOSS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL WATER; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIAL SCALE; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

EROSION;

EROSION CONTROL; HILLSLOPE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SHEET EROSION; VEGETATION COVER;

DRAKENSBERG;

EID: 84862674865     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3203     Document Type: Article

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