Publication date: December 2013
Source:Geoderma, Volumes 211–212
Author(s): Gerald Kirchner
The radiocaesium technique has become an attractive methodology for quantifying long-term average soil erosion and accumulation rates. It is based on comparing the 137Cs inventory in soils of a site which is suspected to be affected by soil redistribution to that of an adjacent undisturbed reference site. A major complication arises from the spatial variability of 137Cs generally present even at small areas of < In addition it is shown that some of the statistical criteria proposed in the literature for discriminating soil redistribution from 137Cs variability show high error risks and should be avoided.
Source:Geoderma, Volumes 211–212
Author(s): Gerald Kirchner