Are erosion barriers and straw mulching effective for controlling soil erosion after a high severity wildfire in NW Spain?

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue , 2016, Pages 132-138

  Fernández, Cristina ^a   Vega, José A ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion Forestal Lourizan   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FIRES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SOILS;

EMERGENCY MEASURES; EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SMALL REDUCTION; STRAW MULCHING; UNTREATED CONTROL; VEGETATION COVER;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HILLSLOPE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MULCH; MULCHING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; STRAW; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

GALICIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949192653     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.11.047     Document Type: Article

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