@article {50311,
	title = {Wind erodibility of soils at Fort Irwin, California (Mojave Desert), USA, before and after trampling disturbance: implications for land management},
	journal = {Earth Surface Porcesses and Landforms},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2007},
	note = {Originally submitted to Journal of Arid Environments, withdrawn for publication delay reasons. Submitted to Earth Surface Porcess and Landforms - published with different authors.Duplicate entries 183506-delete/159613-delete.},
	month = {04/2007},
	pages = {75-84},
	publisher = {Wiley InterScience},
	abstract = {We compared short-term effects of lug-soled-boot-trampling disturbance on water infiltration and soil erodibility on coarse-textured soils in the Mojave Desert. Trampling significantly reduced final infiltration rate and total infiltration and increased sediment generation from small (0.5 m2) rainfall simulation plots (p\&lt;0.01). Trampling had no effect on time to runoff or time to peak runoff. Trampling also significantly reduced surface gravel cover. Trampling had similar effects at sites with both low and high chlorophyll a content, where chlorophyll a is used as an index of the level of microbiotic crust development. We concluded that trampling effects are relatively independent of the presence of microbiotic crusts in this environment. Instead, trampling appears to reduce infiltration by reducing gravel and coarse sand cover, facilitating the development of a sieving crust during rainfall simulation.},
	url = {/files/bibliography/07-008.pdf},
	author = {Jayne Belnap and Phillips, S.L. and Jeffrey E. Herrick and J. Johansen}
}
