Estimating the effect of tree uprooting on variation of soil horizon depth by confronting pedogenetic simulations to measurements in a Belgian loess area

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2124-2139

  Finke, P A ^a   Vanwalleghem, T ^b   Opolot, E ^a   Poesen, J ^c   Deckers, J ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bioturbation; modeling; pedogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; KRIGING; LOESS; PEDOGENESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL HORIZON; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREE;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84893000832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20153     Document Type: Article

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