Anticipating land surface change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5779-5784

  Streeter, Richard ^a   Dugmore, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Geomorphology; Iceland; Resilience; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; LAND SURFACE CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL EROSION; THICKNESS; VEGETATION; VOLCANIC ASH;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; ICELAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876058953     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220161110     Document Type: Article

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