Short-term Experimental Fire Effects in Soil and Water Losses in Southern of Spain

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1513-1522

  Martínez Murillo, Juan Francisco ^a   Hueso González, Paloma ^a   Ruiz Sinoga, Jose Damián ^a   Lavee, Hanoch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

experimental fire; overland flow; plot; rainfall erosivity; soil loss

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; FIRES; RAIN; SOILS;

EXPERIMENTAL FIRES; OVERLAND FLOW; PLOT; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; SOIL LOSS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; OVERLAND FLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL SURFACE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84959440977     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2504     Document Type: Article

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