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
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Agricultural Science, Conservation Biology
Keywords
Dairy, Fencing, Livestock exclusion, water quality
Copyright
© 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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This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.