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The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was calibrated for hydrology conditions in an agricultural watershed of Orestimba Creek, California, and applied to simulate fate and transport of two organophosphate pesticides chlorpyrifos and diazinon. The model showed capability in evaluating pesticide fate and transport processes in agricultural fields and instream network. Management-oriented sens...

The selection and execution of appropriate best management practices (BMPs) in critical areas a watershed can effectively reduce sediment yield. Objectives this research include developing watershed-scale Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model for the Big Sunflower River Watershed (BSRW), identifying high yield using calibrated validated model, assessing effects various BMPs. efficiency three ...

Best Management Practices (BMPs) are implemented in a watershed to reduce the amount of non-point source pollutants transported to water bodies. However, an optimization algorithm is required to choose the efficient type, size, and location of BMPs for application in a watershed for improving the water quality. In this study, the Charged System Search, a well-known and powerful meta-heuristic o...

The equine industry is an established part of Maryland agriculture with 79,100 equines valued at approximately $714 million in the state; 10% these animals are housed one county. Equine operators a unique demographic agricultural realm, because they not managing land to produce food or fiber and often employed other professions unrelated agriculture. These tend be unaware conservation practices...

Deforestation is a severe threat to diversity in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region (EAR). To mitigate deforestation, it necessary know relevant stakeholders’ roles and interactions deepen our knowledge of local livelihoods, objectives, potentials, limitations, “rights being” among farms, as well best management practices (BMPs). In this study, aim was identify assess livestock BMPs along an elevatio...

Trauma and disease frequently result in fractures or critical sized bone defects and their management at times necessitates bone grafting. The process of bone healing or regeneration involves intricate network of molecules including bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). BMPs belong to a larger superfamily of proteins and are very promising and intensively studied for in the enhancement of bone he...

Water quality is a global concern; it due to point and non-point source pollution. Non-point sources for pollution are mainly runoff from Agricultural forest. To decrease nutrient inputs, management practices implemented. Using Soil Assessment Tool, water parameters can be quantified. Yazoo River Watershed the largest watershed in Mississippi, which have impact on surface large scale agricultur...

Lake Macatawa is a hypereutrophic water body that connects with Michigan via navigation channel. Excess phosphorus (P) concentrations have resulted in Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for total (TP) the lake, which has not been met. To guide land management and pollution control watershed, Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model scenarios of agricultural best practices (BMPs) were developed cons...

A mandatory best management practices (BMP) program was implemented in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) farms basin-wide in 1995 as required by the Everglades Forever Act to reduce P loads in drainage water reaching the Everglades ecosystem. All farms in the EAA basin implement similar BMPs, and basin wide P load reductions have exceeded the 25% reduction required by law; however, differe...