An adaptive management approach to improve water quality at a model dairy farm in Vermont, USA

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 131-143

  Kominami, Hisashi ^a   Lovell, Sarah Taylor ^b  

^a Vermont Association of Conservation Districts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Buffer; Constructed wetland; Farm design; Multifunctional landscape; Phosphorus; Stormwater runoff; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BUFFER; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE; STORM WATER RUNOFF;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARMS; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROFITABILITY; RUNOFF; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROECOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DAIRY FARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKE POLLUTION; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION EFFECT; RUNOFF; STAKEHOLDER; STORMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE CHAMPLAIN; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855422164     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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