CEAP Bibliographies and Literature Reviews

Bibliographies

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Conservation Effects Assessment Project Bibliographies (brochure), September 2006 (0.8 MB)

• Environmental Effects of U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs, August 2004
• Implementing Agricultural Conservation Practices: Barriers and Incentives, August 2004
• Data and Modeling for Environmental Credit Trading, August 2004
• Agricultural Conservation Practices and Related Issues: Reviews of the State of the Art and Research Needs, August 2004
• Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes, September 2006
• Environmental Effects of Conservation Practices on Grazing Lands, September 2006

Dynamic Bibliographies

NAL also provides on-line "dynamic bibliographies," which use a predefined search strategy to search the latest holdings of its AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database for the four CEAP bibliography topics as well as related conservation topics.

Literature Reviews

Cropland

Evaluating the Environmental Benefits of Agricultural Conservation Practices: The Status of Our Knowledge. A synthesis of the literature to determine what is known and not known about the environmental benefits of applying conservation practices to cropland is scheduled for publication in late 2005. The Agricultural Research Service, assisted by the Soil and Water Conservation Society is leading the review.

Fish and Wildlife

Fish & Wildlife Benefits of Farm Bill Conservation Programs 2000-2005 Update, October 2005. Farm Bill conservation programs are producing numerous and substantial conservation benefits. Benefits accrue directly from practices targeted towards fish and wildlife as well as through indirect benefits such as reductions in sediments in streams and establishment of habitat through practices not specifically targeting wildlife. Many benefits to wildlife have been documented, especially those associated with the Conservation Reserve Program. Many other benefits are suspected, but have not been documented. This review was published by The Wildlife Society, in cooperation with USDA's National Resources Conservation Service and the Farm Service Agency. Hard copies of the wildlife literature review are available by contacting Charles Rewa. The review is available for purchase from The Wildlife Society.

A second literature review will be published in March 2006 on the effects of specific conservation practices on fish and wildlife.