The role of riparian buffer management in reducing off-site impacts from grazed dairy systems

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Aarons, Sharon R ^a   Gourley, Cameron J P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

fecal organisms; filter strips; nitrogen; nutrients; phosphorus; sediment; watershed

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; DAIRY FARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; FECAL COLIFORM; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NITROGEN; PATHOGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEDIMENT; WATERSHED;

EID: 84872226742     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170511000548     Document Type: Article

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