Land use and climate change effects on soil erosion in a semi-arid mountainous watershed (High Atlas, Morocco)

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-75

  Simonneaux, Vincent ^a   Cheggour, Aouatif ^b   Deschamps, Charles ^a   Mouillot, Florent ^c   Cerdan, Olivier ^d   Le Bissonnais, Yves ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d BRGM   (France)

^e UMR LISAH   (France)

Author keywords

Badlands; Climate downscaling; Erosion modelling; Erosion plots; Land use change; Runoff; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; STREAMFLOW; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATERSHED;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HIGH ATLAS; MOROCCO;

EID: 84932627701     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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