Cost-effective targeting of conservation investments to reduce the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 18530-18535

  Rabotyagov, Sergey S ^a   Campbell, Todd D ^b   White, Michael ^c   Arnold, Jeffrey G ^c   Atwood, Jay ^d   Norfleet, M Lee ^d   Kling, Catherine L ^b   Gassman, Philip W ^b   Valcu, Adriana ^b   Richardson, Jeffrey ^b   Turner, R Eugene ^e   Rabalais, Nancy N ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d USDA NRCS   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural conservation practices; Eutrophication; Evolutionary computation; Gulf of Mexico; Hypoxic zone

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROP MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPLAND; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GULF OF MEXICO; INVESTMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84924309913     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405837111     Document Type: Article

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