Aeolian transport and sandy desertification in semiarid china: A wind tunnel approach

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 605-612

  Wang, X ^a,b   Wang, G ^b   Lang, L ^a   Hua, T ^b   Wang, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Laboratory experiment; Sandy desertification; Semiarid China; Soil texture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN TRANSPORT; DESERTIFICATION RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SANDY DESERTIFICATION; SEMIARID CHINA; SOIL TEXTURES; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATOLOGY; VEGETATION;

SURFACES;

CLAY SOIL; DESERTIFICATION; EOLIAN PROCESS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SILTY SOIL; SOIL TEXTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WIND TUNNEL;

CHINA;

EID: 84890242764     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2249     Document Type: Article

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