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

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.