Linking water quality trends with land use intensification in dairy farming catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Smith, Andrew P ^a,b   Western, Andrew W ^a   Hannah, Murray C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dairy; Intensification; Land use; Trend; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT SCALE; DAIRY FARMING; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FARMING SYSTEM; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; INTENSIFICATION; MILK PRODUCTION; PHYSICAL CHANGES; RIPARIAN BUFFERS; TREATMENT WETLANDS; TREND; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WATER QUALITY TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; DAIRIES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAND USE; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

CATCHMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; DAIRY FARMING; LAND USE CHANGE; MILK PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84871022174     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.08.057     Document Type: Article

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