Impacts of land use/cover change on soil
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Sa'eb Khresat; Jawad Al-Bakri; Ragheb Al-Tahhan
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of deforestation on physical and chemical properties of soils under native forest in the Mediterranean region of northwestern Jordan. Land use/cover maps of 1953, 1978 and 2002 were interpreted and analysed within GIS to quantify the sh