Mapping erosion risk at the basin scale in a Mediterranean environment with opencast coal mines to target restoration actions

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 675-687

  Trabucchi, Mattia ^a,d   Puente, Cesar ^a   Comin, Francisco A ^a   Olague, Gustavo ^b   Smith, Stephen V ^c  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^d Instituto Pirenaico Ecología ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Rehabilitation; Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE); Semi arid; Spain; Water erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869160871     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0278-5     Document Type: Article

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