Seasonality of soil erosion under Mediterranean conditions at the Alqueva dam watershed

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-83

  Ferreira, Vera ^a   Panagopoulos, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

RUSLE; Seasonality; Soil erosion; Sustainable land management (SLM)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTION; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS; RUSLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SOIL EROSION; SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENTS;

EROSION;

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; EROSION RATE; GIS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; SEASONALITY; SOIL EROSION;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATERSHED; WINTER;

ALQUEVA DAM; ALQUEVA RESERVOIR; PORTUGAL;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PORTUGAL; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84902548373     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0281-3     Document Type: Article

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