National, holistic, watershed-scale approach to understand the sources, transport, and fate of agricultural chemicals

Journal of Environmental Quality
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Abstract

This paper is an introduction to the following series of papers that report on in-depth investigations that have been conducted at five agricultural study areas across the United States in order to gain insights into how environmental processes and agricultural practices interact to determine the transport and fate of agricultural chemicals in the environment. These are the first study areas in an ongoing national study. The study areas were selected, based on the combination of cropping patterns and hydrologic setting, as representative of nationally important agricultural settings to form a basis for extrapolation to unstudied areas. The holistic, watershed-scale study design that involves multiple environmental compartments and that employs both field observations and simulation modeling is presented. This paper introduces the overall study design and presents an overview of the hydrology of the five study areas. Copyright ?? 2008 by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. All rights reserved.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title National, holistic, watershed-scale approach to understand the sources, transport, and fate of agricultural chemicals
Series title Journal of Environmental Quality
DOI 10.2134/jeq2007.0226
Volume 37
Issue 3
Year Published 2008
Language English
Publisher ACSESS
Contributing office(s) Washington Water Science Center
Description 11 p.
First page 983
Last page 993
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