Engaging Stakeholders to Define Feasible and Desirable Agricultural Conservation in Western Lake Erie Watersheds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8135-8145

  Kalcic, Margaret McCahon ^a,e   Kirchhoff, Christine ^b   Bosch, Nathan ^c   Muenich, Rebecca Logsdon ^a   Murray, Michael ^d   Griffith Gardner, Jacob ^b   Scavia, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Grace College   (United States)

^d National Wildlife Federation   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER POLLUTION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION PRACTICES; DISSOLVED REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; PHOSPHORUS APPLICATIONS; PHOSPHORUS MANAGEMENT; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS; VEGETATED FILTER STRIPS;

LOADING;

PHOSPHORUS;

ALGAL BLOOM; CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NUTRIENT; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHOSPHORUS; STAKEHOLDER; STREAMFLOW; TRADE-OFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COVER CROP; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; SEDIMENT; WATERSHED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKE; RIVER;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; MAUMEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS;

EID: 84980407322     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01420     Document Type: Article

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