Phytogenic mounds of four typical shoot architecture species at different slope gradients on the Loess Plateau of China

Geomorphology

Volumn 193, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-64

  Du, Hua Dong ^a   Jiao, Ju Ying ^a,b   Jia, Yan Feng ^c   Wang, Ning ^a   Wang, Dong Li ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mound; Plant morphology; Plant shoot architecture; Sedimentation; Water erosion

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEMIARID REGION; SHOOT GROWTH; SLOPE DYNAMICS; WATER EROSION;

ARTEMISIA GIRALDII; ARTEMISIA GMELINII; BOTHRIOCHLOA ISCHAEMUM; SOPHORA VICIIFOLIA;

EID: 84877680199     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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