Farm practices for food safety: An emerging threat to floodplain and riparian ecosystems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 236-242

  Gennet, Sasha ^a   Howard, Jeanette ^a   Langholz, Jeff ^b   Andrews, Kathryn ^a   Reynolds, Mark D ^a   Morrison, Scott A ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FECAL COLIFORM; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SUPPLY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TOXIC ORGANISM; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 84878560968     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120243     Document Type: Article

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