Rock fragments and soil hydrological processes: Significance and progress

Catena

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 153-166

  Zhang, Yinghu ^a   Zhang, Mingxiang ^a   Niu, Jianzhi ^a   Li, Hongli ^a   Xiao, Rong ^a   Zheng, Haijin ^b   Bech, Jaume ^c  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Soil and Water Conservation   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Rock fragments; Runoff generation; Soil erosion; Soil preferential flow; Solute transport; Water flow

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; ECOHYDROLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAVY METAL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LITERATURE REVIEW; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84978288920     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.012     Document Type: Review

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