Ireland

Soil Erosion in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 455-462

  Favis Mortlock, David ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial peat fuel extraction; Future soil erosion in Ireland; Galway and Mayo worst peat afflicted areas; Irish lowland soil erosion; Irish upland soil erosion; Irish water off site pollution of agricultural runoff; Peat ('bog bursts' and 'bog slides') mass movements; Soil erosion in Ireland; Systematic erosion monitoring

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; PEAT; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

EROSION MONITORING; FUEL EXTRACTION; GALWAY AND MAYO - WORST PEAT AFFLICTED AREAS; IRELAND; LOWLAND SOILS; MASS MOVEMENT; OFF SITES; UPLAND SOIL;

EROSION;

EID: 84886081584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470859202.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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