Response of sediment yield to vegetation restoration at a large spatial scale in the Loess Plateau

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1482-1489

  Liu, Xiaoyan ^a   Yang, Shengtian ^b   Dang, Suzhen ^a   Luo, Ya ^b   Li, Xiaoyu ^c   Zhou, Xu ^b  

^a YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Yellow River Inst of Hydrologic and Water Resources Research   (China)

Author keywords

forest and grass vegetation; large spatial scale; Loess Plateau; sediment concentration; sediment yield

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION;

LARGE SPATIAL SCALE; LOESS PLATEAU; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; RUNOFF AND SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT YIELDS; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION RESTORATION;

SEDIMENTS;

CONCENTRATION; EROSION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84906778457     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-014-5605-2     Document Type: Article

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