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Title: | Beyond the Edge: Linking Agricultural Landscapes, Stream Networks, and Best Management Practices | Contributor(s): | Kreiling, R M (author); Thoms, M C (author) ; Richardson, W B (author) | Publication Date: | 2018-01 | DOI: | 10.2134/jeq2017.08.0319 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29813 | Abstract: | Despite much research and investment into understanding and managing nutrients across agricultural landscapes, nutrient runoff to freshwater ecosystems is still a major concern. We argue there is currently a disconnect between the management of watershed surfaces (agricultural landscape) and river networks (riverine landscape). These landscapes are commonly managed separately, but there is limited cohesiveness between agricultural landscape‐focused research and river science, despite similar end goals. Interdisciplinary research into stream networks that drain agricultural landscapes is expanding but is fraught with problems. Conceptual frameworks are useful tools to order phenomena, reveal patterns and processes, and in interdisciplinary river science, enable the joining of multiple areas of understanding into a single conceptual–empirical structure. We present a framework for the interdisciplinary study and management of agricultural and riverine landscapes. The framework includes components of an ecosystems approach to the study of catchment–stream networks, resilience thinking, and strategic adaptive management. Application of the framework is illustrated through a study of the Fox Basin in Wisconsin, USA. To fully realize the goal of nutrient reduction in the basin, we suggest that greater emphasis is needed on where best management practices (BMPs) are used within the spatial context of the combined watershed–stream network system, including BMPs within the river channel. Targeted placement of BMPs throughout the riverine landscape would increase the overall buffering capacity of the system to nutrient runoff and thus its resilience to current and future disturbances. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Environmental Quality, 47(1), p. 42-53 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1537-2537 0047-2425 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 040699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 370702 Ecohydrology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960608 Rural Water Evaluation (incl. Water Quality) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180307 Rehabilitation or conservation of fresh, ground and surface water environments | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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