Assessment and Monitoring of Soil Degradation during Land Use Change Using Multivariate Analysis

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 128-141

  Khaledian, Yones ^a,b   Kiani, Farshad ^a   Ebrahimi, Soheila ^a   Brevik, Eric C ^c   Aitkenhead Peterson, Jacqueline ^d  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

deforestation; multivariate statistics; PLS; soil degradation; stepwise regression

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POSITIVE IONS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION; SOIL DEGRADATION; STEPWISE REGRESSION; STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ION EXCHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY;

IRAN;

EID: 84971643960     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2541     Document Type: Article

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