Use of vegetative furrows to mitigate copper loads and soil loss in runoff from polyethylene (plastic) mulch vegetable production systems

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 719-725

  Rice, Pamela J ^a   Harman Fetcho, Jennifer A ^b   Teasdale, John R ^b   Sadeghi, Ali M ^b   McConnell, Laura L ^b   Coffman, C Benjamin ^b   Herbert, Rachel R ^b   Heighton, Lynne P ^b   Hapeman, Cathleen J ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper; Polyethylene mulch; Runoff; Soil erosion; Vegetative furrows

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; FUNGICIDES; POLYETHYLENES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY;

SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATIVE FURROWS;

TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; BACTERICIDE; COPPER; FUNGICIDE; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER;

COPPER; EROSION CONTROL; FURROW IRRIGATION; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; AGROECOSYSTEM; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION; HARVEST; MULCH; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RYE; SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; TECHNIQUE; TOMATO; TURBIDITY; VEGETABLE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; COPPER; PLASTICS; SECALE CEREALE; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; VEGETABLES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 33644643784     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-14     Document Type: Article

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