Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China
Conserving more soil water is of great importance to the sustainability of arid and semiarid orchards. Here we integrated fish-scale pits, semicircular mini-catchments for hill slope runoff collection, with mulches to test their effects on soil water storage in a 12-year-old dryland jujube orchard o...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-02-01
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Series: | Solid Earth |
Online Access: | http://www.solid-earth.net/7/167/2016/se-7-167-2016.pdf |