Grass buffers for playas in agricultural landscapes: An annotated bibliography

Abstract

Figure 1. Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PLJV) and Bird Conservation Region (BCR) boundaries. The Southern High Plains (SHP) roughly corresponds with the lower half of BCR 18, including southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas. Methods To develop this bibliography, we conducted extensive searches of existing literature and sought professional knowledge from scientists and land managers. Literature searches entailed the use of databases, such as Agricola, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (including agricultural, biological, ecological, environmental, pollution and engineering topical areas), Water Resources Abstracts, Wildlife Worldwide (NISC), First Search, Web of Science (Science Citation Index), and others. We also made significant use of existing buffer/VFS reviews and bibliographies, as well as the bibliography sections of publications that we reviewed for this bibliography. Art W. Allen (U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO) generously provided us with a bibliography that he is developing on the effects of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with respect to wildlife habitat, habitat management in agricultural systems, and agricultural conservation policy. In addition to literature searches, we conducted keyword searches in library catalogues (U.S. Geological Survey FORT Science Center library, Colorado State University Morgan Library, and Colorado Prospector libraries), making use of interlibrary loan services to access potentially important publications not available locally. We also conducted keyword and citation searches on the World Wide Web using <http://www.scholar.google.com>; many publications and general sources of information (including Natural Resource Conservation Service [NRCS] information) were easily found and accessed this way. Finally, we interviewed numerous individuals, including researchers, land managers, and others with expertise on topics relevant to this bibliography and the associated synthesis, requesting reprints from them when their publications were not readily accessible by other means. 2

Grass buffers for playas in agricultural landscapes: A literature synthesis

“…To develop this synthesis, and the associated bibliography (Melcher and Skagen, 2005), we conducted extensive searches of existing literature and sought professional knowledge from scientists and land managers. Literature searches entailed the use of databases, such as Agricola, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (including agricultural, biological, ecological, environmental, pollution and engineering topical areas), Water Resources Abstracts, Wildlife Worldwide (NISC), First Search, Web of Science (Science Citation Index), Dissertation Abstracts, and others.…”