Organic farm does not improve neither soil, or water quality in rural watersheds from southeastern Brazil

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 132-146

  Silva, Alexandre Marco Da ^a   Manfre, Luiz Augusto ^b   Urban, Rodrigo Custódio ^c   Silva, Vanessa Honda Ogihara ^b   Manzatto, Mariana Politti ^c   Norton, Lloyd Darrell ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farm systems; Land cover change; Non organic; Organic farming; Soil attributes; Water attributes

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEFORESTATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOILS; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LAND-COVER CHANGE; NON-ORGANIC; ORGANIC FARMING; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; SOIL ATTRIBUTES; RURAL WATERSHEDS; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL;

WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ORGANIC FARMING; RURAL AREA; SEASONALITY; SOIL QUALITY; WATERSHED; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; LANDOWNER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOIL PROPERTY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEFORESTATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SHEDS;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; IBIUNA PLATEAU;

EID: 84906862143     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.07.044     Document Type: Article

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