Spatial distribution characteristics of soil moisture in different types of sand dune in the Mu Us Sandy Land, adjacent to north of Chinese Loess Plateau

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Fu, Chao Feng ^a,b   Bian, Zi Hao ^c   Xi, Jian Jian ^a   Zhao, Jing Bo ^d  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grain size distribution; Loess desert transitional area; Microtopography; Sand dunes; Soil moisture; Vegetation form

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; FORESTRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SAND; SEDIMENTS; SILT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LOESS-DESERT TRANSITIONAL AREA; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; MOISTURE CONCENTRATION; SAND DUNES; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ARID REGION; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAIN SIZE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SEMIARID REGION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; ORDOS;

EID: 85042562529     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-018-7307-8     Document Type: Article

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