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Temporal variation in soil rill erodibility to concentrated flow detachment under four typical croplands in the Loess Plateau of China

Y.-C. Yu, G.-H. Zhang, R. Geng and Z.-W. Li
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation July 2014, 69 (4) 352-363; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.69.4.352
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