Effect of vegetation cover types on soil infiltration under simulating rainfall

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 193-198

  Pingping, Huang ^a   Xue, Sha ^b,c   Li, Peng ^a   Zhanbin, Li ^a,b,c  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Infiltration rate; Microbiotic soil crust; Simulating rainfall; Vegetation succession

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID AREAS; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; INFILTRATION RATE; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SOIL CRUSTS; VEGETATION SUCCESSIONS; WATER INFILTRATION;

INFILTRATION;

ARID REGION; GRAZING; HERB; INFILTRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84879352283     PISSN: 09726268     EISSN: 23953454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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