Assessing cultivated cropland inherent vulnerability to sediment and nutrient losses with the Soil Vulnerability Index

Claire Baffaut is a research hydrologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, Columbia, Missouri. Allen L. Thompson is a professor in the Department of Biomedical, Biological, and Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Lisa F. Duriancik is the leader for the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Watershed Assessment Studies Component at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, Beltsville, Maryland. Kevin A. Ingram is the leader for the CEAP Natural Resources Analysis Team at the USDA NRCS Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, Beltsville, Maryland. M. Lee Norfleet is the leader for the CEAP Modeling Team at the USDA NRCS Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, Temple, Texas.