Temporal Variations of Flow-sediment Relationships in a Highly Erodible Catchment of the Loess Plateau, China

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 758-772

  Gao, Guangyao ^a,c   Ma, Ying ^b   Fu, Bojie ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Flow sediment relationship; Land use change; Loess plateau; Multi temporal scale; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EROSION; FLOODS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONSERVATION;

FLOW-SEDIMENT RELATIONSHIP; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOESS PLATEAU; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SOIL EROSION;

SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAND USE CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84973483383     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2455     Document Type: Article

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