Soil detachment by overland flow under different vegetation restoration models in the Loess Plateau of China

Catena

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-59

  Wang, Bing ^a,b   Zhang, Guang Hui ^a,b   Shi, Yang Yang ^c   Zhang, X C ^d  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanxi Architectural College   (China)

^d USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Overland flow; Soil detachment capacity; Soil erosion; The Loess Plateau; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; LINEARITY; MIXED FOREST; POROSITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL TYPE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84892459314     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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