Effects of Different Land-Use Types on Soil Erosion Under Natural Rainfall in the Loess Plateau, China

Pedosphere

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 243-256

  Feng, Qiang ^a,b   Zhao, Wenwu ^a   Wang, Jun ^c   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Zhao, Mingyue ^a   Zhong, Lina ^a   Liu, Yuanxin ^a   Fang, Xuening ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Ministry of Land and Resources of China   (China)

Author keywords

Runoff depth; Soil conservation; Soil loss; Vegetation coverage; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BULK DENSITY; GRASSLAND; KINETIC ENERGY; LAND USE CHANGE; PARTICLE SIZE; RUNOFF; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; YANAN;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84958062948     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(15)60039-X     Document Type: Article

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