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Data from: Data on four criteria for targeting the placement of conservation buffers in agricultural landscapes

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posted on 2024-02-09, 18:09 authored by Zeyuan Qiu, Michael G. Dosskey, Yang Kang

Four criteria are generally used to prioritize agricultural lands for placing conservation buffers. The criteria include soil erodibility, hydrological sensitivity, wildlife habitat, and impervious surface rate that capture conservation buffers' benefits in reducing soil erosion, controlling runoff generation, enhancing wildlife habitat, and mitigating stormwater impacts, respectively. This article describes the data used to derive the values of those attributes and a scheme to classify the values in multi-criteria analysis of conservation buffer placement in the Raritan River Basin in New Jersey in the accompanying article "Choosing between alternative placement strategies for conservation buffers using borda count" (2016), Landscape and Urban Planning 153:66-73 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.03.012


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  • Resource Title: Data on four criteria for targeting the placement of conservation buffers in agricultural landscapes.

    File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340916302207

    Data in Brief Article including tables of classification scheme for soil erodibility, wildlife habitat, impervious surface, and spatial distribution maps as supplementary materials.

Funding

USDA-NIFA: 2012-67019-19348

USDA-NRCS: 692B26104

USDA-FS: 09-DG-11330152-057

History

Data contact name

Qiu, Zeyuan

Data contact email

zeyuan.qiu@njit.edu

Publisher

Data in Brief

Intended use

Each of four criteria can be useful indicators for prioritizing conservation efforts in landscapes. A localized classification system is a powerful tool to balance the subjective preferences of stakeholders and the objective measurement of natural resource conditions in resource management decision-making. The method for analyzing the data and the classification system are useful tools for making critical decisions on conservation buffer placement.

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

Raritan River Basin, Central New Jersey, United States

ISO Topic Category

  • biota
  • boundaries
  • environment
  • farming
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • inlandWaters
  • planningCadastre
  • society

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

conservation buffers; agricultural land; soil; erodibility; hydrology; wildlife habitats; soil erosion; stormwater; erosion control; multi-criteria decision making; fuzzy logic

Primary article PubAg Handle

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Qiu, Zeyuan; Dosskey, Michael G.; Kang, Yang (2017). Data from: Data on four criteria for targeting the placement of conservation buffers in agricultural landscapes. Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.006