Check dam sediments: An important indicator of the effects of environmental changes on soil erosion in the Loess Plateau in China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4275-4287

  Wang, Yafeng ^a,b   Chen, Liding ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a   Lü, Yihe ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Check dam; Environmental change; Sediment; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CESIUM; DAMS; DEPOSITION; EROSION; LAND USE; SILT; WATERSHEDS;

CHECK DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL EROSION; UPSTREAM DIRECTION;

SEDIMENTS;

CESIUM 137; RAIN;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; DAM; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRAP; SOIL EROSION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DAM (BARRIER); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAND USE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; VEGETATION; WATERSHED;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84902367766     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3697-6     Document Type: Article

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