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On-farm intervention for improving water quality: livestock exclusion fencing

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1 Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
2 School of Natural and Environmential Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27179v1
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Subject Areas
Agricultural Science, Conservation Biology
Keywords
Dairy, Fencing, Livestock exclusion, water quality
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© 2018 Taylor et al.
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Taylor AE, Kendall H, Reed M, Stewart G. 2018. On-farm intervention for improving water quality: livestock exclusion fencing. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27179v1

Abstract

The proposed protocol is for a rapid evidence synthesis analysis into the use of livestock exclusion fencing as an on-farm intervention for improving water quality. The primary objectives are to assess the use of livestock exclusion fencing to improve water quality by reducing nutrient load, the presence of faecal indicator organisms and sediment load in watercourses on farms. The secondary objectives include evaluating how stocking density/land cover and watercourse size moderate the impacts of exclusion fencing on water quality. The protocol outlines the rationale and objects of the review, and the inclusion criteria, search strategy, data extraction, statistical analysis, risk of bias and data synthesis.

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Amy E Taylor conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Helen Kendall conceived and designed the experiments, approved the final draft.

Mark Reed conceived and designed the experiments, approved the final draft.

Gavin Stewart conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, approved the final draft.

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The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The research in this article did not generate any data or code as it is a study protocol

Funding

This work is funded by the Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’ with support from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC and Scottish Government. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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