Grasslands, wetlands, and agriculture: The fate of land expiring from the Conservation Reserve Program in the Midwestern United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Morefield, Philip E ^a   Leduc, Stephen D ^a   Clark, Christopher M ^a   Iovanna, Richard ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; Conservation Reserve Program; corn; grasslands; land use change; soy; wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; SOIL CONSERVATION; WETLANDS;

CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM; CORN; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; GRASSLANDS; LAND-USE CHANGE; US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAIZE; SORGHUM; SOYBEAN; WETLAND; WHEAT;

DAKOTA COUNTY [NEBRASKA]; IOWA; MIDWEST; NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84994358513     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094005     Document Type: Article

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