Stream eutrophication in agricultural areas is common in North America and efforts are currently underway to reverse this process. There has been increasing interest in the use of riparian plantings to mitigate eutrophication and to enhance soil and water conservation (Nakao and Sohngen, 2000). In southern Ontario, streamside plantings, apart from conserving soil and water, may also provide tax benefits (under certain programs) in addition to providing short- and long-term woody biomass for on-farm use. Planting fast-growing hybrid poplar as a source of biofuel, for example, may make reforestation of streamsides an attractive financial proposition (Simpson et al. 1993). Reforestation of land along waterways may also compensate for losses of woodland as a result of increasing urban sprawl (Countryman and Murrow, 2000).
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Oelbermann, M., Gordon, A.M., Kaushik, N.K. (2008). Biophysical Changes Resulting from 16 Years of Riparian Forest Rehabilitation: An Example from the Southern Ontario Agricultural Landscape. In: Jose, S., Gordon, A.M. (eds) Toward Agroforestry Design. Advances in Agroforestry, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6572-9_2
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