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research article

Soil moisture, runoff, erosion: Long-term comparative studies on vegetated and denuded plots in typical brush areas of California

authors

F. J. Veihmeyer, University of California College of Agriculture

publication information

California Agriculture 4(10):8-13. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v004n10p8. October 1950.

abstract

Not available – first paragraph follows:

The chaparral lands of California-estimated at ten million acres—are covered with brush so dense that herbs and grasses which are suitable for grazing can not survive in competition with it.

author affiliations

F. J. Veihmeyer is Professor of Irrigation, University of California College of Agriculture, Davis.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1108A.