Long-term implications of water erosion in olive-growing areas in southern Spain arising from a model-based integrated assessment at hillside scale

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-80

  Ibáñez, Javier ^a   Martínez Valderrama, Jaime ^b   Taguas, Encarnación V ^c   Gómez, José A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economic losses; Erosion; Integrated assessment; Long term impacts; Olive

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER EROSION;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84899933177     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2014.01.006     Document Type: Article

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