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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Main Authors: H. C. Li, X. D. Gao, X. N. Zhao, P. T. Wu, L. S. Li, Q. Ling, W. H. Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-02-01
Series:Solid Earth
Online Access:http://www.solid-earth.net/7/167/2016/se-7-167-2016.pdf