Riparian water quality buffers: Estimates of effectiveness and minimum width in an agricultural landscape, Western Tennessee

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-127

  Coleman, David S ^a   Kupfer, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; GIS; RIPARIAN BUFFER; WATER QUALITY;

USA, TENNESSEE, FAYETTE COUNTY;

EID: 0030366575     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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