Digital mapping of structural conservation practices in the Midwest U.S. croplands: Implementation and preliminary analysis

Martins, Vitor Souza; Kaleita, Amy L.; Gelder, Brian K.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145191

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“…The HUC classification scheme is a nationwide set of nested polygons that classifies basins based on drainage subdivisions. Six different HUC levels have officially been established which are categorized as regions, subregions, basins, subbasins, watersheds, and subwatersheds [97,99]. Regions are identified with 2-digit codes, which include the six major basins that comprise the MARB.…”

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An Approach for Prioritizing Natural Infrastructure Practices to Mitigate Flood and Nitrate Risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin

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Risks from flooding and poor water quality are evident at a range of spatial scales and climate change will exacerbate these risks in the future. Natural infrastructure (NI), consisting of structural or perennial vegetation, measures that provide multiple ecosystem benefits have the potential to reduce flood and water quality risks. In this study, we intersected watershed-scale risks to flooding and nitrate export in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) of the central U.S. with potential locations of seven NI practices (row crop conversion, water, and sediment control basins, depressional wetlands, nitrate-removal wetlands, riparian buffers, and floodplain levees and row crop change) to prioritize where NI can be most effective for combined risk reduction at watershed scales. Spatial data from a variety of publicly-available databases were analyzed at a 10 m grid cell to locate NI practices using a geographic information system (GIS). NI practices were presented at the regional basin scale and local Iowa-Cedar watershed in eastern Iowa to show individual practice locations. A prioritization scheme was developed to show the optimal watersheds for deploying NI practices to minimize flooding and water quality risks in the MARB. Among the 84 HUC4 basins in the MARB, 28 are located in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Rivers basins. The Wabash and Iowa-Cedar basins (HUCs 0512 and 0708, respectively) within these basins were found to rank among the uppermost quintile for nearly all practices evaluated, indicating widespread opportunities for NI implementation. Study results are a launching point from which to improve the connections between watershed scale risks and the potential use of NI practices to reduce these risks.

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Section: Assessing Runoff and No 3 -N Risks In Marbmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach for Prioritizing Natural Infrastructure Practices to Mitigate Flood and Nitrate Risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin

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Suttles

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“…Rural revitalization strategy is a major strategic plan in the field of "three rural areas" in China in the new period, which is an important guiding ideology for promoting agricultural development, rural harmony and farmers' prosperity [3][4]. Realizing the strategy of rural revitalization requires improving the output efficiency and output quality of agricultural factors, continuously innovating agricultural technology, strengthening the leadership of talents, and improving the efficiency of agricultural resource allocation, which requires further promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas [5][6]. The Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022) clearly points out that the powerful hand that promotes urban-rural integration and high-quality development is to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and the report of the 19th National Congress of the CPC also explicitly proposes to accelerate the modernization of agriculture, which is a re-examination of the development of China's "Three Rural Areas" in the new period [7].…”

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Integration of Rural Revitalization Strategy and Modernized Agricultural Governance Based on Intelligent Big Data Analysis

Yin

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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This paper explores the integration mechanism of rural revitalization strategy and agricultural modernization governance. The relationship between the two is complementary and closely linked, and rural revitalization can bring new impetus to agricultural modernization. The logistic development model is proposed to carry out a stage-by-stage study on the integration development of agricultural modernization governance and rural revitalization, and the subsystem orderliness and composite system synergy models are established by using the geometric mean method and the linear weighting method, respectively, and the degree of integration development is judged by measuring the integration status. The model constructed in this paper, as well as the governance level of rural revitalization strategies and agricultural modernization in place B, are measured through empirical research. The experiment shows that the two variables in this paper and their logarithmic means are 100, and the means are 0.3436, 0.3463, -1.3217, and -0.9874, respectively. In the stability test, the number of scatters in the region is 92, and the truthfulness and predictive intervals are in [-1,1], which makes the model stability and credibility good. After the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy for 11 years, the level of the comprehensive development index of agricultural modernization in the rural areas of place B in 2020 is 0.3189, 0.2473, 0.2434, 0.2645, respectively, which is in the stage of steady growth.

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“…(e.g., Srinivas et al 2020). Publicly available, high-resolution data sources for these tools are also becoming more readily and publicly available (McNeely et al 2017, Hagen et al 2019, Seifert et al 2019, Phiri et al 2020, Martins et al 2021.…”

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Identifying environmental, economic, and equity opportunities through a spatial lens

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Agriculture in the U.S. Corn Belt has become highly specialized, efficiently growing two crops, corn and soybeans, and concentrated livestock production. However, this specialization -and the management system it encourages -has caused negative environmental externalities. For example, beneficial insects and wildlife, their habitat, and water quality have all declined as agricultural production has simplified and expanded on the landscape. Solutions exist to address those negative externalities by incorporating conservation and native perennial cover into the landscape. Nonetheless, these solutions often contradict the traditional productivist norms of agriculture and have other tangible barriers (e.g., cost or alignment with the production system). This dissertation used spatial analysis methods to identify opportunities for environmental, economic, and equitable improvement across the landscape. It included three studies evaluating biophysical, economic, and social factors for conservation practice implementation. In an effort to expand the breadth of analysis, the final chapter focused on social equity at a national extent for environmental resource provisioning.To identify where win-win scenarios for ecosystem services (i.e., nitrate reduction for enhanced water quality) and economic benefits to a landowner exist, three case study watersheds were analyzed to determine whether and how often conservation practices to address nitrate reduction and water quality overlapped with unprofitable subfield areas. The Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) and Iowa State Ag Decision Maker financial data were used to identify overlaps between water quality-focused conservation practice placement and unprofitable subfield areas. Approximately 30% of the study area had co-occurring economic and environmental benefits that resulted in a win-win scenario. In the remaining 70% of the study area, trade-offs existed between increasing whole-field profitability and improvements to water quality. While conservation in unprofitable areas tended to be more cost-effective, it did not always differ significantly from implementing conservation practices in profitable areas.

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Digital mapping of structural conservation practices in the Midwest U.S. croplands: Implementation and preliminary analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 70 publications

An Approach for Prioritizing Natural Infrastructure Practices to Mitigate Flood and Nitrate Risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin

An Approach for Prioritizing Natural Infrastructure Practices to Mitigate Flood and Nitrate Risks in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin

Integration of Rural Revitalization Strategy and Modernized Agricultural Governance Based on Intelligent Big Data Analysis

Identifying environmental, economic, and equity opportunities through a spatial lens

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