Impact of alpine meadow degradation on soil hydraulic properties over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 478, Issue , 2013, Pages 148-156

  Zeng, Chen ^a,b   Zhang, Fan ^a   Wang, Quanjiu ^b,c   Chen, Yingying ^a   Joswiak, Daniel R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine meadow soil; Basic soil property; Degradation; Hydraulic property; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALPINE MEADOW; AS-SOILS; BULK DENSITY; DEGREE OF DEGRADATION; DOMINANT FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM COMPONENTS; FLOWTHROUGH; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GRAVIMETRIC DENSITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; MACROPORES; MESO-PORES; MICROPORES; PEARSON CORRELATION; PRESSURE HEADS; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SAND CONTENT; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL LAYER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL POROSITY; SOIL PROPERTY; TENSION INFILTROMETERS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER FLOWS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAMMALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

INFILTRATION;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MEADOW; OVERGRAZING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; RODENT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

RODENTIA;

EID: 84871715413     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.058     Document Type: Article

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