How to make a barranco: Modeling erosion and land-use in Mediterranean Landscapes

Land

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 578-606

  Barton, C Michael ^a   Ullah, Isaac ^a   Heimsath, Arjun ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Erosion; Land use; Landscape; Mediterranean; Modeling; Social ecological system; Spain; Surface process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959120927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land4030578     Document Type: Article

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