CEAP Bibliographies and Literature Reviews

Bibliographies

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Conservation Effects Assessment Project Bibliographies (brochure), October 2008 (PDF; 0.8 MB)

Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Fish and Wildlife, August 2008 Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes, September 2006 Environmental Effects of Conservation Practices on Grazing Lands, September 2006 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 These bibliographies offer more than 7,500 citations with abstracts where available, and with Internet addresses for documents available on-line. Hard copies of the bibliographies are available by contacting wqic@nal.usda.gov.

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 CEAP bibliography topics as well as related conservation topics.

Literature Reviews

Cropland

Environmental Benefits of Conservation on Cropland: The Status of Our Knowledge. 2006. A synthesis of the literature to determine what is known and not known about the environmental benefits of applying conservation practices to cropland. The Agricultural Research Service, assisted by the Soil and Water Conservation Society led 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.

Fish and Wildlife Response to Farm Bill Conservation Practices. September 2007. This volume addresses conservation practices that can be used to provide fish and wildlife benefits through the Farm Bill. It does not specifically focus on investigations of actual Farm Bill-funded projects but rather summarizes investigations that have addressed various benefits or impacts to fish and wildlife resources associated with the primary practices utilized for fish and wildlife objectives within Farm Bill programs.

Both documents were published by The Wildlife Society in cooperation with USDA's National Resources Conservation Service and the Farm Service Agency. Hard copies are available for purchase from The Wildlife Society or by contacting Charles Rewa.