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Hydrologic And Water Quality Impacts From Perennial Crop Production On Marginal Lands, Qingyu Feng
Hydrologic And Water Quality Impacts From Perennial Crop Production On Marginal Lands, Qingyu Feng
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Marginal lands are proposed as a viable option for producing biofeedstocks as these lands are not heavily engaged in agricultural production or may not be suitable for intensive row-crop food/feed production. However, meeting biofeedstock production goals will require large amount of marginal lands and the unintended consequences of producing biofeedstocks on marginal lands are not fully clear. The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the productivity of biofeedstocks on marginal lands and the potential impacts on hydrologic and water quality processes from the land use conversion.
This study was conducted in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). First, …