Soil erosion monitoring and its implication in a limestone land suffering from rocky desertification in the Huajiang Canyon, Guizhou, Southwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 831-841

  Peng, Jian ^a   Xu, Yue Qing ^b   Zhang, Ren ^c   Xiong, Kang Ning ^d   Lan, An Jun ^d  

^a MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Karst rocky desertification (KRD); Land use; Leveling method; Soil erosion; Southwest China; The Huajiang Canyon

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED CROPLANDS; ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; KARST ROCKY DESERTIFICATION (KRD); MONITORING PERIODS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION RATE; SOUTHWEST CHINA; THE HUAJIANG CANYON;

CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LIMESTONE;

SOILS;

ABANDONED LAND; CANYON; DATA ACQUISITION; DESERTIFICATION; EROSION RATE; KARST; LAND USE; LEVELING; LIMESTONE; MONITORING; MOUNTAIN; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; GUIZHOU;

EID: 84877679904     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1968-5     Document Type: Article

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