The Landscape Evolution Observatory: A large-scale controllable infrastructure to study coupled Earth-surface processes

Geomorphology

Volumn 244, Issue , 2015, Pages 190-203

  Pangle, Luke A ^a   DeLong, Stephen B ^a,b   Abramson, Nate ^a   Adams, John ^a   Barron Gafford, Greg A ^a   Breshears, David D ^a,e   Brooks, Paul D ^h   Chorover, Jon ^a   Dietrich, William E ^c   Dontsova, Katerina ^a   Durcik, Matej ^a   Espeleta, Javier ^a,d   Ferre, T P A ^a   Ferriere, Regis ^e,i   Henderson, Whitney ^a   Hunt, Edward A ^a   Huxman, Travis E ^f   Millar, David ^a   Murphy, Brendan ^a,g   Niu, Guo Yue ^a   Pavao Zuckerman, Mitch ^a   Pelletier, Jon D ^e   Rasmussen, Craig ^a   Ruiz, Joaquin ^a,e   Saleska, Scott ^e   Schaap, Marcel ^a   Sibayan, Michael ^a   Troch, Peter A ^a   Tuller, Markus ^a   van Haren, Joost ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

ⁱ PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Coevolution; Energy balance; Soil weathering; Water cycle; Zero order basin

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DRAINAGE BASIN; ENERGY BALANCE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937972001     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.020     Document Type: Article

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