Using the Agricultural Policy/ Environmental eXtender to develop and validate physically based indices for the delineation of critical management areas

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 284-299

  Mudgal, A ^a   Baffaut, C ^c   Anderson, S H ^b   Sadler, E J ^c   Kitchen, N R ^c   Sudduth, K A ^c   Lerch, R N ^c  

^a University of Missouri ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

APEX; Critical areas; Index; Modeling; Targeting

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ATRAZINE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CALIBRATION; CLAY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDEX METHOD; MAIZE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOYBEAN; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84865222122     PISSN: 00224561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2489/jswc.67.4.284     Document Type: Article

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