JOURNAL OF YANGTZE RIVER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTI ›› 2013, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (9): 27-32.

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Index of Vegetation Structure Applied to Researching the Water-Soil Conservation Function of Vegetation in Hilly Red Soil Regions

SUN Jia-jia, WANG Zhi-gang, ZHANG Ping-cang, PAN Xiao-ying   

  1. Soil and Water Conservation Department, Yangtze River Scientific Research Institute, Wuhan 430010, China
  • Received:2012-07-27 Revised:2013-09-18 Online:2013-09-15 Published:2013-09-18

Abstract: The authors systematically analyzed previous researches on the vegetation structure and water-soil conservation, the vegetation structural index and its appraisal, and the evaluation of vegetation’s soil and water conservation benefit. It’s pointed out that the soil and water loss is still serious in the red soil regions in south China because there are losses of under-forest soil in varying degrees without close-cover of vegetation. Therefore, rational evaluation of the soil and water conservation function of vegetation is critical to the management of soil and water conservation and the subject development.

Key words: vegetation index, vegetation structure, water-soil conservation function, research progress

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