Predicting event soil loss from bare plots at two Italian sites

Catena

Volumn 109, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-102

  Bagarello, V ^a   Ferro, V ^a   Giordano, G ^a   Mannocchi, F ^b   Todisco, F ^b   Vergni, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical models; Soil loss prediction; Soil water erosion; USLE M; USLE MM

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SAND; SILT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

EID: 84879214047     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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