Assessment of spatial variability in water erosion rates in an olive orchard at plot scale using a magnetic iron oxide tracer

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 350-361

  Guzmán, Gema ^a   Vanderlinden, Karl ^b   Giráldez, Juan V ^a,c   Gómez, José A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIABILITY; DISTRIBUTION MAPS; FIELD CALIBRATION; INFILTRATION CAPACITY; MAGNETIC IRON OXIDES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOIL DISPLACEMENT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

CALIBRATION; FORESTRY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORCHARDS; RUNOFF; SOILS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

EROSION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EVERGREEN TREE; INFILTRATION; IRON OXIDE; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER EROSION;

CALIBRATION; EROSION; FORESTRY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ORCHARDS; SOIL;

EID: 84877246639     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2012.0219     Document Type: Article

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