Fingerprinting sediment sources in the outlet reservoir of a hilly cultivated catchment in Tunisia

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 801-815

  Ben Slimane, Abir ^a,b   Raclot, Damien ^b   Evrard, Olivier ^c   Sanaa, Mustapha ^a   Lefèvre, Irène ^c   Ahmadi, Mehdi ^c   Tounsi, Mouna ^d   Rumpel, Cornelia ^e   Ben Mammou, Abdallah ^d   Le Bissonnais, Yves ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^b UMR LISAH   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Catchment; Core sampling strategy; Fingerprinting technique; Gully erosion; Reservoir; Rill and interrill erosion; Source sediment

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BANK EROSION; CATCHMENT; CORE ANALYSIS; CULTIVATION; GRASSLAND; GULLY EROSION; HILL; INTERRILL EROSION; RESERVOIR; RILL; SILTATION; SOIL EROSION; TOPSOIL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER EROSION; WATER STORAGE;

TUNISIA;

EID: 84875387101     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-012-0642-6     Document Type: Article

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