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N2O, CH4 fluxes and soil respiration rates were measured monthly using static chambers from June 2008 to November 2010. Net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of carbon dioxide (CO2) was measured by eddy covariance on Miscanthus from May 2008 and on willow from October 2009 until November 2010. The N2O fluxes were significantly smaller from the bioenergy crops than that of the annual crops. Average fluxes were 8 and 32\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcg\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 N2O\uffe2\uff80\uff90N from wheat and oilseed rape, and 4 and 0.2\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcg\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 N2O\uffe2\uff80\uff90N from Miscanthus and willow, respectively. Soil CH4 fluxes were negligible for all crops and soil respiration rates were similar for all crops. NEE of CO2 was larger for Miscanthus (\uffe2\uff88\uff92770\uffc2\uffa0g\uffc2\uffa0C\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921) than willow (\uffe2\uff88\uff92602\uffc2\uffa0g\uffc2\uffa0C\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921) in the growing season of 2010. N2O emissions from Miscanthus and willow were lower than for the wheat and oilseed rape which is most likely a result of regular fertilizer application and tillage in the annual arable cropping systems. Application of 15N\uffe2\uff80\uff90labelled fertilizer to Miscanthus and oil seed rape resulted in a fertilizer\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in N2O emission in both crops. Denitrification rates (N2O\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0N2) were similar for soil under Miscanthus and oilseed rape. Thus, perennial bioenergy crops only emit less GHGs than annual crops when they receive no or very low rates of N fertilizer.</p>", "keywords": ["2. 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The potential carbon debt caused by harvest and the resulting time spans needed to reach pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90harvest carbon levels (payback) or those of a reference case (parity) have become important parameters for climate and bioenergy policy developments. The present range of analyses however varies in assumptions, regional scopes, and conclusions. Comparing these modeling efforts, we reveal that they apply different principle modeling frameworks while results are largely affected by the same parameters. The size of the carbon debt is mostly determined by the type and amount of biomass harvested and whether land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use change emissions need to be accounted for. Payback times are mainly determined by plant growth rates, i.e. the forest biome, tree species, site productivity and management. Parity times are primarily influenced by the choice and construction of the reference scenario and fossil carbon displacement efficiencies. Using small residual biomass (harvesting/processing), deadwood from highly insect\uffe2\uff80\uff90infected sites, or new plantations on highly productive or marginal land offers (almost) immediate net carbon benefits. Their eventual climate mitigation potential however is determined by the effectiveness of the fossil fuel displacement. We deem it therefore unsuitable to define political guidance by feedstock alone. Current global wood pellet production is predominantly residue based. Production increases based on low\uffe2\uff80\uff90grade stemwood are expected in regions with a downturn in the local wood product sector, highlighting the importance of accounting for regional forest carbon trends. \uffc2\uffa9 2013 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd</p>", "keywords": ["carbon payback", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "carbon neutrality", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "13. Climate action", "11. 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This paper reviews the current and future biofuel technologies, and their development impacts (including on the climate) within given policy and economic frameworks. Current technologies make it possible to provide first generation biodiesel, ethanol or biogas to the transport sector to be blended with fossil fuels. Still under-development 2nd generation biofuels from lignocellulose should be available on the market by 2020. Research is active on the improvement of their conversion efficiency. A ten-fold increase compared with current cost-effective capacities would make them highly competitive. Within bioenergy policies, emphasis has been put on biofuels for transportation as this sector is fast-growing and represents a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Compared with fossil fuels, biofuel combustion can emit less greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle, considering that part of the emitted returns to the atmosphere where it was fixed from by photosynthesis in the first place. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is commonly used to assess the potential environmental impacts of biofuel chains, notably the impact on global warming. This tool, whose holistic nature is fundamental to avoid pollution trade-offs, is a standardised methodology that should make comparisons between biofuel and fossil fuel chains objective and thorough. However, it is a complex and time-consuming process, which requires lots of data, and whose methodology is still lacking harmonisation. Hence the life-cycle performances of biofuel chains vary widely in the literature. Furthermore, LCA is a site- and time- independent tool that cannot take into account the spatial and temporal dimensions of emissions, and can hardly serve as a decision-making tool either at local or regional levels. Focusing on greenhouse gases, emission factors used in LCAs give a rough estimate of the potential average emissions on a national level. However, they do not take into account the types of crop, soil or management practices, for instance. Modelling the impact of local factors on the determinism of greenhouse gas emissions can provide better estimates for LCA on the local level, which would be the relevant scale and degree of reliability for decision-making purposes. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of the processes involved, most notably emissions, is still needed to definitely improve the accuracy of LCA. Perennial crops are a promising option for biofuels, due to their rapid and efficient use of nitrogen, and their limited farming operations. However, the main overall limiting factor to biofuel development will ultimately be land availability. Given the available land areas, population growth rate and consumption behaviours, it would be possible to reach by 2030 a global 10% biofuel share in the transport sector, contributing to lower global greenhouse gas emissions by up to (IEA, 2006), provided that harmonised policies ensure that sustainability criteria for the production systems are respected worldwide. Furthermore, policies should also be more integrative across sectors, so that changes in energy efficiency, the automotive sector and global consumption patterns converge towards drastic reduction of the pressure on resources. Indeed, neither biofuels nor other energy source or carriers are likely to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic pressure on resources in a range that would compensate for this pressure growth. Hence, the first step is to reduce this pressure by starting from the variable that drives it up, i.e. anthropic consumptions.", "keywords": ["effet de serre", "BIOFUELS;ENERGY CROPS;PERENNIALS;LCA;GREENHOUSE GASES;CLIMATE CHANGE;POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS;BIOENERGY POTENTIAL;LAND-USE CHANGE;NITROUS OXIDE;CARBON DIOXIDE;AGRICULTURAL PRATICES \u00a0;AGRONOMIE;", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "dioxyde de carbone", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "biomasse", "pratique culturale", "\u00e9nergie", "2. Zero hunger", "changement climatique", "oxyde nitreux", "gaz trace", "\u00e9mission", "Agricultural sciences", "flux", "culture \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique", "cycle de vie", "biocarburant", "13. 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Soil organic carbon (SOC) ranged from 20 to more than 160 Mg/ha across the sampled sites. Lowest SOC levels were found in uplands and highest levels in riparian soils. We attributed differences in bulk density and SOC among cover types to the inclusion of woodlot soils in the analysis. Paired comparison found few differences between poplar and agricultural crops. Sites with significant comparisons varied in magnitude and direction. Relatively greater SOC was often observed in poplar when native soil carbon was low, but there were important exceptions. Woodlots consistently contained greater SOC than the other crops, especially at depth. We observed little difference between paired poplar and switchgrass, both promising bioenergy crops. There was no evidence of changes in poplar SOC relative to adjacent agricultural soils when considered for stand ages up to 12 years. Highly variable native SOC levels and subtle changes over time make verification of soil carbon sequestration among land cover types difficult. In addition to soil carbon storage potential, it is therefore important to consider opportunities offered by long-term sequestration of carbon in solid wood products and carbon-offset through production of bioenergy crops. Furthermore, short rotation poplars and switchgrass offer additional carbon sequestration and other environmental benefits such as soil erosion control, runoff abatement, and wildlife habitat improvement.", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "Fossil Fuels", "Switchgrass", "Rotation", "Climate Change", "Crops", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Soils Carbon Sequestration", "7. 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Nevertheless, a significant number of studies report from very positive to negative environmental implications from growing and processing energy crops, thus great uncertainty still remains on this argument. The present study focused on the cradle-to-grave impact assessments of alternative scenarios including annual and perennial energy crops for electricity/heat or first and second generation transport fuels, giving special emphasis to agricultural practices which are frequently surprisingly neglected in Life Cycle Assessment studies despite a not secondary relevance on final outcomes. The results show that cradle-to-farm gate impacts, i.e. including the upstream processes, may account for up to 95% of total impacts, with dominant effects on marine water ecotoxicity. Therefore, by increasing the sustainability of crop management through minimizing agronomic inputs, or with a complementary use of crop resides, can be expected to significantly improve the overall sustainability of bioenergy chains, as well as the competitiveness against fossil counterparts. Once again, perennial crops resulted in substantially higher environmental benefits than annual crops. It is shown that significant amount of emitted CO2 can be avoided through converting arable lands into perennial grasslands. Besides, due to lack of certain data, soil carbon storage was not included in the calculations, while N2O emission was considered as omitted variable bias (1% of N-fertilization). Therefore, especially for perennial grasses, CO2 savings were reasonably higher that those estimated in the present study. For first generation biodiesel, sunflower showed a lower energy-based impacts than rapeseed, while wheat should be preferred over maize for first generation bioethanol given its lower land-based impacts. For second generation biofuels and thermo-chemical energy, switchgrass provided the highest environmental benefits. With regard to bioenergy systems, first generation biodiesel was less impacting than first generation bioethanol; bioelectricity was less impacting than first generation biofuels and second generation bioethanol by thermo-chemical hydrolysis, but highly impacting than Biomass-to-Liquid biodiesel and second generation bioethanol through enzymatic hydrolysis.", "keywords": ["LCA; Bioenergy; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. 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To date, nearly all information on SOC change under switchgrass has been based on modeled assumptions or small plot research, both of which do not take into account spatial variability within or across sites for an agro-ecoregion. To address this need, we measured change in SOC and harvested C yield for switchgrass fields on ten farms in the central and northern Great Plains, USA (930 km latitudinal range). Change in SOC was determined by collecting multiple soil samples in transects across the fields prior to planting switchgrass and again 5 years later after switchgrass had been grown and managed as a bioenergy crop. Harvested aboveground C averaged 2.5\u00b1 0.7 Mg C ha \u22121 over the 5 year study. Across sites, SOC increased significantly at 0-30 cm (P=0.03) and 0-120 cm (P=0.07), with accrual rates of 1.1 and 2.9 Mg C ha \u22121 year \u22121 (4.0 and 10.6 Mg CO2 ha \u22121 year \u22121 ), respectively. Change in SOC across sites varied considerably, however, ranging from \u22120.6 to 4.3 Mg C ha \u22121 year \u22121 for the 0-30 cm depth. Such variation in SOC change must be taken into consideration in LCAs. Net GHG emissions from bioenergy crops vary in space and time. Such variation, coupled with an increased reliance on agriculture for energy production, underscores the need for long-term environmental monitor- ing sites in major agro-ecoregions.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Switchgrass", "Greenhouse gas balance", "Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment", "Plant Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Perennial biofeedstocks", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "630", "13. 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It is clear that not every advertized energy source can lead to a sustainable, humane and environment-friendly path out of a future energy crisis. Our proposal is based on two assertions: that the use of food crops for biofuels is immoral, and that for this purpose using land suitable for growing crops productively is to be avoided. We advocate a focus on new 'extremophile' crops. These would either be wild species adapted to extreme environments which express genes, developmental processes and metabolic pathways that distin- guish them from traditional crops or existing crops genetically modified to withstand extreme environments. Such extrem- ophile energy crops (EECs), will be less susceptible to stresses in a changing global environment and provide higher yields than existing crops. Moreover, they will grow on land that has never been valuable for agriculture or is no longer so, owing to centuries or millennia of imprudent exploitation. Such a policy will contribute to striking a balance between ecosystem protection and human resource management. Beyond that, rather than bulk liquid fuel generation, combus- tion of various biomass sources including extremophiles for generating electrical energy, and photovoltaics-based capture of solar energy, are superbly suitable candidates for powering the world in the future. Generating electricity and efficient storage capacity is quite possibly the only way for a sustainable post-fossil and, indeed, post-biofuel fuel economy.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Abiotic stress tolerance", "15. Life on land", "Bioenergy generation", "Food or fuel", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "Extremophiles", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Alternative crops"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-011-0112-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Food%20Security", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s12571-011-0112-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s12571-011-0112-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s12571-011-0112-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-02-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s12155-012-9198-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:15:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-05-03", "title": "Soil Carbon Sequestration By Switchgrass And No-Till Maize Grown For Bioenergy", "description": "Net benefits of bioenergy crops, including maize and perennial grasses such as switchgrass, are a function of several factors including the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestered by these crops. Life cycle assessments (LCA) for bioenergy crops have been conducted using models in which SOC information is usually from the top 30 to 40 cm. Information on the effects of crop management practices on SOC has been limited so LCA models have largely not included any management practice effects. In the first 9 years of a long-term C sequestration study in eastern Nebraska, USA, switchgrass and maize with best management practi- ces had average annual increases in SOC per hectare that exceed 2 Mg Cyear \ufffd1 (7.3 Mg CO2year \ufffd1 ) for the 0 to 150 soil depth. For both switchgrass and maize, over 50 % of the increase in SOC was below the 30 cm depth. SOC seques- tration by switchgrass was twofold to fourfold greater than that used in models to date which also assumed no SOC sequestration by maize. The results indicate that N fertilizer rates and harvest management regimes can affect the mag- nitude of SOC sequestration. The use of uniform soil C effects for bioenergy crops from sampling depths of 30 to 40 cm across agro-ecoregions for large scale LCA is questionable.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "Switchgrass . Maize", "2. Zero hunger", "Switchgrass", "Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment", "soil carbon . Soil organic carbon . Bioenergy . Sustainability . Carbon sequestration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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A vital aspect of utilizing stover for bioenergy production is to establish sustainable harvest criteria that avoid exacerbating soil erosion or degrading soil organic carbon (SOC) levels. Our goal is to empirically estimate the minimum residue return rate required to sustain SOC levels at numerous locations and to identify which macroscale factors affect empirical estimates. Minimum residue return rate is conceptually useful, but only if the study is of long enough duration and a relationship between the rate of residue returned and the change in SOC can be measured. About one third of the Corn Stover Regional Partnership team (Team) sites met these criteria with a minimum residue return rate of 3.9 \u00b1 2.18 Mg stover ha\u22121 yr\u22121, n = 6. Based on the Team and published corn-based data (n = 35), minimum residue return rate was 6.38 \u00b1 2.19 Mg stover ha\u22121 yr\u22121, while including data from other cropping systems (n = 49), the rate averaged 5.74 \u00b1 2.36 Mg residue ha\u22121 yr\u22121. In broad general terms, keeping about 6 Mg residue ha\u22121 yr\u22121 maybe a useful generic rate as a point of discussion; however, these analyses refute that a generic rate represents a universal target on which to base harvest recommendations at a given site. Empirical data are needed to calibrate, validate, and refine process-based models so that valid sustainable harvest rate guidelines are provided to producers, industry, and action agencies.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Renewable energy", "330", "Second generation feedstock", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Bioenergy", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Sustainable", "7. Clean energy", "12. 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Grown Under Variable Nitrogen Fertilization Rates", "description": "High and stable biomass yields for long periods (15\u201320\u00a0years) are indispensable for the successful establishment of a well-developed bioenergy sector. However, the effects of management practices, particularly nitrogen fertilization, on productivity and soil organic carbon (SOC) are difficult to understand, especially when considering that continuous harvesting cycles may have cumulative effects on the crop and its resources use capacity. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different N fertilization levels on biomass production and SOC accumulation of giant reed over 16\u00a0years. Every year, starting from the second one, two N fertilization rates were applied: 80 (N80) and 160 (N160)\u2009kg N\u00a0ha\u22121. The control treatment (N0) was unfertilized. Nitrogen content and use capacity, and SOC gains were determined. Mean 16-year biomass yields were 16.2, 17.1, and 19.5\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 in the N0, N80, and N160 treatments, respectively. Variable yielding phases were observed in the N160 treatment with declining yields towards the last sampling season, whereas the N0 was characterized by increasing yields up to the fourth growing season; thereafter, declining yields were observed. Nitrogen concentration and removed N in the aboveground harvested biomass increased from N0 to N160 and as the stand become older. Mean total SOC stock gains were 1.0 and 0.6\u00a0Mg C\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121 in the N160 and N0 treatments, respectively. The largest SOC stocks were found in the topsoil, with the largest amount (12\u00a0Mg C\u00a0ha\u22121 in 16\u00a0years) in the N160 treatment. In conclusion, long-term high N fertilization rates result in marginal increments in biomass productivity (about 3\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121), but in substantial increments in SOC, especially in surface soil layers. A farmer might prefer to grow giant reed without the burdens of fertilization despite the seemingly benefits on SOC and lower yields of unfertilized plots.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Bioenergy; Biomass; Long-term; Marginal land; Soil carbon; Yield; Agronomy and Crop Science; Energy (miscellaneous); Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "6. 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The most suitable plant species must be identified before the potential biomass production in a particular region can be quantified. This in turn depends on the degree of climatic adaptation by those species. In the range of climates present in New Zealand, biomass crop growth has less restriction due to water deficit or low winter temperature than in most world regions. Biomass production for energy use in New Zealand would be best utilised as transport fuel since 70\uffc2\uffa0% of the country\uffe2\uff80\uff99s electricity generation is already renewable, but nearly all of its transport fossil fuel is imported. There is a good economic development case for transport biofuel production using waste streams and biomass crops. This review identified the most suitable crop species and assessed their production potential for use within the climatic range present in New Zealand. Information from published work was used as a basis for selecting appropriate crops in a 2-year selection and evaluation process. Where there were knowledge gaps, the location-specific selections were further evaluated by field measurements. The data presented have superseded much of the speculative information on the suitability of species for the potential development of a biofuel industry in New Zealand.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Biomass crops", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "Environmental Engineering", "High dry mass yield", "LCA", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Energy crops", "Perennials", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "Greenhouse gases", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agronomy and Crop Science", "Land use change", "Bioenergy potential"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Huub Kerckhoffs, Richard Renquist,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-012-0114-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy%20for%20Sustainable%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s13593-012-0114-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s13593-012-0114-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s13593-012-0114-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.10.008", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:15:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-11-29", "title": "Fluxes Of The Greenhouse Gases (Co2, Ch4 And N2o) Above A Short-Rotation Poplar Plantation After Conversion From Agricultural Land", "description": "The increasing demand for renewable energy may lead to the conversion of millions of hectares into bioenergy plantations with a possible substantial transitory carbon (C) loss. In this study we report on the greenhouse gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, and N2O) measured using eddy covariance of a short-rotation bioenergy poplar plantation converted from agricultural fields. During the first six months after the establishment of the plantation (June-December 2010) there were substantial CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions (a total of 5.36 +/- 0.52 MgCO2eq ha(-1) in terms of CO2 equivalents). Nitrous oxide loss mostly occurred during a week-long peak emission after an unusually large rainfall. This week-long N2O emission represented 52% of the entire N2O loss during one and an half years of measurements. As most of the N2O loss occurred in just this week-long period, accurately capturing these emission events are critical to accurate estimates of the GHG balance of bioenergy. While initial establishment (June-December 2010) of the plantation resulted in a net CO2 loss into the atmosphere (2.76 +/- 0.16 Mg CO2eq ha(-1)), in the second year (2011) there was substantial net CO2 uptake (-3.51 +/- 0.56 Mg CO2eq ha(-1)). During the entire measurement period, CH4 was a source to the atmosphere (0.63 +/- 0.05 Mg CO2eq ha(-1) in 2010, and 0.49 +/- 0.05 Mg CO2eq ha(-1) in 2011), and was controlled by water table depth. Importantly, over the entire measurement period, the sum of the CH4 and N2O losses was much higher (3.51 +/- 0.52 Mg CO2eq ha(-1)) than the net CO2 uptake (-0.76 +/- 0.58 Mg CO2eq ha(-1)). As water availability was an important control on the GHG emission of the plantation, expected climate change and altered rainfall pattern could increase the negative environmental impacts of bioenergy. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.", "keywords": ["N2O fluxes", "2. Zero hunger", "Physics", "Water limitation", "Eddy covariance", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "Land use change (LUC)", "Chemistry", "CO2 fluxes", "13. 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Over a total area of about 7000\u00a0m 2 , detailed measurements of woody biomass were conducted using structural information such as diameter at breast height (dbh), total height, and stem height. At the same time, the wet weight of herbaceous, shrubs, and litter was registered within that area. Soil samples were also collected to determine parameters such as bulk density and organic carbon. The above-ground tree biomass (AGB) was quantified by two non-destructive methods. This biomass was expressed from each reservoir studied in t.ha \u22121  and the carbon content was then calculated using a factor of 0.5. Carbon stocks in the ecosystems studied were 162, 92, and 48\u00a0tC.ha \u22121  for Yungas, Chaco, and shrublands, respectively. Our results show that carbon is concentrated in the soil or as AGB. The latter is the most important reservoir in Yungas, while the soil plays this role in the other two, drier environments. In the province of Salta, native forests play a significant role in the mitigation of greenhouse gases. Our results reveal the magnitude of carbon stocks in some characteristic regional native forests, and estimate their carbon sequestration potential. These results could be useful to inform policy makers in charge of negotiations related to conservation and sustainable management of native forests, and be a relevant input for the formulation of more comprehensive land use planning processes in the region.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Biomass Density", "Carbon Sequestration", "Mitigation", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Bioenergy", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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This study presents a new simulation model, SunnGro, which reproduces sunn hemp productivity, while providing a detailed description of leaf/branch size heterogeneity and its evolution during the vegetative season. The model was calibrated and validated using 20 field datasets collected from 2016 to 2018 in Greece, Spain, and Italy under non-limiting soil water conditions. High correlation between the simulated and measured values of branch number (R2\u00a0=\u00a00.80), leaf number (R2\u00a0=\u00a00.92), and biomass accumulation (0.67", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Advanced biofuel; Bioenergy crop; BioMA modeling platform; Crop intensification; Crop rotation; Double crop; Legume", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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This included assessing environmental impacts and land use change emissions (LUC) required to replace used co-substrates for anaerobic digestion. Environmental impact categories considered were climate change, terrestrial acidification, marine and freshwater eutrophication, particulate matter formation, land use, and fossil fuel depletion. Six scenarios were evaluated: mono-digestion of manure, co-digestion with: maize silage, maize silage and glycerin, beet tails, wheat yeast concentrate (WYC), and roadside grass. Mono-digestion reduced most impacts, but represented a limited source for bio-energy. Co-digestion with maize silage, beet tails, and WYC (competing with animal feed), and glycerin increased bio-energy production (up to 568%), but at expense of increasing climate change (through LUC), marine eutrophication, and land use. Co-digestion with wastes or residues like roadside grass gave the best environmental performance.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Swine", "emissions", "indirect land use change", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "Environment", "15. Life on land", "pig slurry", "renewable energy", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "Consequential LCA", "Refuse Disposal", "12. Responsible consumption", "Manure", "Bacteria", " Anaerobic", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "greenhouse gases", "11. 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Clean water", ":Enginyeria qu\u00edmica [\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC]", "Higher heating value", "Bioenergy", "Water treatment", "Energies renovables", "0210 nano-technology", "Metal recovery", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.12.148"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Chemical%20Engineering%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.cej.2018.12.148", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.cej.2018.12.148", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.cej.2018.12.148"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.eja.2016.01.019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-02-23", "title": "Effect Of Irrigation And Nitrogen Fertilization On The Production Of Biogas From Maize And Sorghum In A Water Limited Environment", "description": "Abstract   The expansion of biogas production from anaerobic digestion in the Po Valley (Northern Italy) has stimulated the cultivation of dedicated biomass crops, and maize in particular. A mid-term experiment was carried out from 2006 to 2010 on a silt loamy soil in Northern Italy to compare water use and energy efficiency of maize and sorghum cultivation under rain fed and well-watered treatments and at two rates of nitrogen fertilization. The present work hypothesis were: (i) biomass sorghum, for its efficient use of water and nitrogen, could be a valuable alternative to maize for biogas production; (ii) reduction of irrigation level and (iii) application of low nitrogen fertilizer rate increase the efficiency of bioenergy production. Water treatments, a rain fed control (I0) and two irrigation levels (I1 and I2; only one in 2006 and 2009), were compared in a split\u2013split plot design with four replicates. Two fertilizer rates were also tested: low (N1, 60\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121 of nitrogen; 0\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121 of nitrogen in 2010) and high (N2, 120\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121 of nitrogen; 100\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121 of nitrogen in 2010). Across treatments, sorghum produced more aboveground biomass than maize, respectively 21.6 Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 and 16.8 Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 (p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrogen fertilization", "Bioenergy; Biomass; Irrigation; Maize; Nitrogen fertilization; Sorghum; Agronomy and Crop Science; Plant Science; Soil Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Bioenergy", "Biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Irrigation", "7. Clean energy", "Sorghum", "6. 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Using a biophysical biomass-balance model, we analyze how these factors affect global primary bioenergy potentials in 2050. The model calculates biomass supply and demand balances for eleven world regions, eleven food categories, seven food crop types and two livestock categories, integrating agricultural forecasts and scenarios with a consistent global land use and NPP database. The TREND scenario results in a global primary bioenergy potential of 77\u00a0EJ/yr, alternative assumptions on food-system changes result in a range of 26-141\u00a0EJ/yr. Exclusion of areas for biodiversity conservation and inaccessible land in failed states reduces the bioenergy potential by up to 45%. Optimistic assumptions on future energy crop yields increase the potential by up to 48%, while pessimistic assumptions lower the potential by 26%. We conclude that the design of sustainable bioenergy crop production policies needs to resolve difficult trade-offs such as food vs. energy supply, renewable energy vs. biodiversity conservation or yield growth vs. reduction of environmental problems of intensive agriculture.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Article", "12. Responsible consumption", "Energy(all)", "Food system", "13. Climate action", "Conflicting land-uses", "11. 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Though the positions of individual states or the goal of avoided deforestation guide many approaches, our model sets cost-effective strategies for climate change mitigation and the efficient and balanced use of forest resources at its center. Current approaches to forest resource-based carbon accounting consider only a fraction of its potential and fail to adequately mobilize the LULUCF sector for the successful stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. The presence of a significantly large \u201cincentive gap\u201d justifies the urgency of reforming the current LULUCF carbon accounting framework. In addition to significantly broadening the scope of carbon pools accounted under LULUCF, we recommend paying far greater attention to the troika of competing but potentially compatible interests surrounding the promotion of standing forests (in particular for the purposes of carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection and ecosystem promotion/ preservation), harvested wood products (HWP) and bioenergy use. The successful balancing of competing interests, the enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness and the balanced use of forest resources require an accounting mechanism that weighs and rewards each component according to its real climate mitigation potential. Further, our data suggest the benefits of such a broadly based carbon accounting strategy and the inclusion of LULUCF in national and international accounting and emission trading mechanisms far outweigh potential disadvantages. Political arguments suggesting countries could take advantage of LULUCF accounting to reduce their commitments are not supported by the evidence we present.", "keywords": ["Carbon accounting", "Geography", " Planning and Development", "LULUCF", "Kyoto Protocol", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "Climate change mitigation", "13. Climate action", "11. 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Recirculation of nutrients from wood chip combustion by ash spreading in forests has been proposed as a means for counteracting the nutrient export. This study was carried out to examine the effect of wood chip ash application on soil chemistry in a 44-year-old Norway spruce (Picea abies) plantation on a nutrient-poor soil in Denmark and to investigate the effect of applying different ash types and doses. Soil samples were collected and analyzed 2.5 years (3 growing seasons) after ash application. This study shows that, regardless of ash formulation, preparation or dose, application of wood ash to forest soil has a liming effect in the O-horizon manifested as an increase in CECe, BS and pH. This effect was not seen in the mineral soil within the time frame of this study. At the same time, an increase in Cd was found in the O-horizon, corresponding to the amount added in the ashes. Generally, no other increase in soil contents of the heavy metals was seen. Hardening of the wood ash did not decrease the chemical impact on the soil chemistry as compared to non-treated ash whereas an increase in ash application dose increases the liming effect.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Nutrient recycling", "Fertilization", "Bioenergy", "Forest", "Wood ash", "15. Life on land", "Plant nutrition", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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However, it remains unclear how associated high sunk establishment costs, long-term commitment, highly uncertain net returns, and policy induced incentives could drive farmer's decision to afforest agricultural land. A real option model is used to theoretically frame the decision to switch from agriculture to energy forestry. Optimal investment timing is modeled and the functioning of government subsidies offered to speed up the switch to energy forestry is analyzed. The empirical analysis examines the establishment of new short-rotation coppice willow stands in Central East Sweden. It is shown that in the presence of volatile agricultural profits and high establishment costs, subsidies are needed to accelerate investment. We then examine the case of the municipality of Enkoping and show that the combination of governmental subsidies for energy forestry with compensation for sewage sludge treatment provides an effective stimulus to investment in new willow stands which also has environmental benefits.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Economics and Econometric", "Monitoring", "Policy and Law", "Sociology and Political Science", "05 social sciences", "Forestry", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Short-rotation willow coppice", "Management", "12. Responsible consumption", "Bioenergy policy", "13. 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However, their environmental sustainability is increasingly debated because of land competition with food production, negative carbon balances and impacts on biodiversity. Arid and semi-arid lands have been proposed as a more sustainable alternative without such impacts. In that context this paper evaluates the carbon balance of potential land conversion to Jatropha cultivation, biofuel production and use in arid and semi-arid areas. This evaluation includes the calculation of carbon debt created by these land conversions and calculation of the minimum Jatropha yield necessary to repay the respective carbon debts within 15 or 30 years. The carbon debts caused by conversion of arid and semi-arid lands to Jatropha vary largely as a function of the biomass carbon stocks of the land use types in these regions. Based on global ecosystem carbon mapping, cultivated lands and marginal areas (sparse shrubs, herbaceous and bare areas) show to have similar biomass carbon stocks (on average 4e 8tCh a \ufffd 1 ) and together cover a total of 1.79 billion ha.", "keywords": ["carbon balance", "2. Zero hunger", "biomass", "carbon accounting", "Bio-\u00e9nerg\u00e9tique", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "land use", "Agriculture", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "biofuels", "12. Responsible consumption", "Environnement et pollution", "mitigation", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "11. 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The cultivation of sugar beet and Miscanthus for bioethanol production in the North of the Netherlands is used as a case study. The environmental impacts included are greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (during lifecycle and related to direct land use change), soil quality, water quantity and quality, and biodiversity. Suitable methods are selected and adapted based on an extensive literature review. The spatial variation in environmental impacts related to the spatial heterogeneity of the physical context is assessed using Geographical Information System (GIS). The case study shows that there are large spatial variations in environmental impacts of the introduction of bioenergy crops. Land use change (LUC) to sugar beet generally causes more negative environmental impacts than LUC to Miscanthus. LUC to Miscanthus could have positive environmental impacts in some areas. The most negative environmental impacts of a shift towards sugar beet and Miscanthus occur in the western wet pasture areas. The spatially combined results of the environmental impacts illustrate that there are several trade offs between environmental impacts: there are no areas were no negative environmental impacts occur. The assessment demonstrates a framework to identify areas with potential negative environmental impacts of bioenergy crop production and areas where bioenergy crop production have little negative or even positive environmental impacts.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "certification", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "costs", "energy crop cultivation", "argentina part", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "13. 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These discrepancies are confusing for policy and it is thus important to have scientific clarity on the basis of the assessment outcomes. Such clear insights can enable harmonisation of the different assessments. This review explores current state of the art approaches and methodologies used in bioenergy assessments, and identifies key elements that are critical determinants of bioenergy potentials. We apply the lessons learnt from the review exercise to compare and harmonise a selected set of country based bioenergy potential studies, and provide recommendations for conducting more comprehensive assessments. Depending on scenario assumptions, the harmonised technical biomass potential estimates up to 2030 in the selected countries range from 5.2 to 27.3 EJ in China, 1.1 to 18.8 EJ in India, 2.0 to 10.9 EJ in Indonesia, 1.6 to 7.0 EJ in Mozambique and 9.3 to 23.5 EJ in the US. From the review, we observed that generally, current studies do not cover all the basic (sustainability) elements expected in an ideal bioenergy assessment and there are marked differences in the level of parametric detail and methodological transparency between studies. Land availability and suitability lack spatial detail and especially degraded and marginal lands are poorly evaluated. Competition for water resources is hardly taken into account and biomass yields are based mostly on crude ecological zoning criteria. A few studies take into account improvements in management of agricultural and forestry production systems, but the underlying assumptions are hardly discussed. Competition for biomass resources among the various applications is crudely analysed in most studies and key assumptions such as demographic dynamics, biodiversity protection criteria, etc. are not explicitly discussed. To facilitate more comprehensive bioenergy assessments, we recommend an integrated analytical framework that includes all the key factors, employs high resolution geo-referenced datasets and accounts for potential feedback effects.", "keywords": ["greenhouse-gas", "spatial-distribution", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Review", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Biomass", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "2. Zero hunger", "Energy", "Milieukunde", "Methodology", "bio-energy", "Scheikunde", "15. Life on land", "plantation biomass resources", "carbon sequestration", "6. Clean water", "integrated approach", "sustainable bioenergy", "land-use scenarios", "13. 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Amongst several emerging solutions, soil microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) pose an interesting addition as a low-cost, carbon\u2013neutral technology. A full understanding on the electro-generative processes in SMFCs has, however, yet to be achieved, hindering the technology\u2019s translation into practical applications. In this study, an in-depth investigation into the evolution of the output voltage generated by membrane-less, flat-plate SMFCs that accounts for the contribution of both the anode and cathode potential is provided for the first time, along with a study of the influence that organic matter content and porosity in soil has on voltage dynamics. Four stages in voltage evolution over time were observed, which depended on soil properties. The content of organic matter had the greatest effect, leading to an output voltage nearly-three times higher, when it increased from 10 % to 50 %. In this case, the anode potential reached a value of \u2212450 mV, which prompted an exponential increase in the cathode potential and led to a power density of 68 mWm\u22122. The experimental findings were used to develop a novel computational model that, by predicting the electrochemical behaviour of the SMFC in different soils, becomes a powerful guide for operating strategies that can markedly enhance electricity generation. Consequently, this study sets the foundation for effective system optimisation and real applications.<br/><br/>", "keywords": ["Soil Microbial Fuel Cells", "/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy; name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "13. Climate action", "Bioanode", "Bioenergy", "Bioanode; Biocathode; Bioenergy; Modelling; Soil Microbial Fuel Cells", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100/2105; name=Renewable Energy", " Sustainability and the Environment", "7. 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The analysis uses a spatial bioeconomic model that maximizes profit from crop and energy products, subject to the requirement that the biorefinery must be operated at full capacity. The model draws upon biophysical crop input-output coefficients simulated with the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model as well as market input and output prices, spatial transportation costs, ethanol yields from biomass, and biorefinery capital and operational costs. The model was applied to 82 cropping systems simulated across 37 subwatersheds in a 9-county region of southern Michigan in response to ethanol prices simulated to rise from $1.78 to $3.36 per gallon. Results show that the decentralized local biomass processing depots lead to lower profitability but better environmental performance, due to more reliance on perennial grasses than the centralized biorefinery. Simulated technological improvement that reduces the processing cost and increases the ethanol yield of switchgrass by 17% could cause a shift to more processing of switchgrass, with increased profitability and environmental benefits.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Michigan", "Ethanol", "Biomass production", " bioenergy supply", " cellulosic ethanol", " environmental trade-off analysis", " bioeconomic modeling", " EPIC", " spatial configuration", " local biomass processing", " Crop Production/Industries", " Environmental Economics and Policy", " Production Economics", " Resource /Energy Economics and Policy", " Q16", " Q15", " Q57", " Q18", "", "02 engineering and technology", "Environment", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "Costs and Cost Analysis", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Computer Simulation", "Biomass"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Egbendewe-Mondzozo, Aklesso, Swinton, Scott M., Bals, Bryan D., Dale, Bruce E.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1021/es303829w"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Science%20%26amp%3B%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1021/es303829w", "name": "item", "description": "10.1021/es303829w", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1021/es303829w"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcbb.12168", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-01-10", "title": "Implications Of Land-Use Change To Short Rotation Forestry In Great Britain For Soil And Biomass Carbon", "description": "Abstract<p>Land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use change can have significant impacts on soil and aboveground carbon (C) stocks and there is a clear need to identify sustainable land uses which maximize C mitigation potential. Land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use transitions from agricultural to bioenergy crops are increasingly common in Europe with one option being Short Rotation Forestry (SRF). Research on the impact on C stocks of the establishment of SRF is limited, but given the potential for this bioenergy crop in temperate climates, there is an evident knowledge gap. Here, we examine changes in soil C stock following the establishment of SRF using combined short (30\uffc2\uffa0cm depth) and deep (1\uffc2\uffa0m depth) soil cores at 11 sites representing 29 transitions from agriculture to SRF. We compare the effects of tree species including 9 coniferous, 16 broadleaved and 4 Eucalyptus transitions. SRF aboveground and root biomass were also estimated in 15 of the transitions using tree mensuration data allowing assessments of changes in total ecosystem C stock. Planting coniferous SRF, compared to broadleaved and Eucalyptus SRF, resulted in greater accumulation of litter and overall increased soil C stock relative to agricultural controls. Though broadleaved SRF had no overall effect on soil C stock, it showed the most variable response suggesting species\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific effects and interactions with soil types. While Eucalyptus transitions induced a reduction in soil C stocks, this was not significant unless considered on a soil mass basis. Given the relatively young age and limited number of Eucalyptus plantations, it is not possible to say whether this reduction will persist in older stands. Combining estimates of C stocks from different ecosystem components (e.g., soil, aboveground biomass) reinforced the accumulation of C under coniferous SRF, and indicates generally positive effects of SRF on whole\uffe2\uff80\uff90ecosystem C. These results fill an important knowledge gap and provide data for modelling of future scenarios of LUC.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "QH301 Biology", "organic carbon", "land use", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "333", "QH301", "eucalypt", "13. Climate action", "afforestation", "land-use", "SRF", "coniferous", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "deciduous", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12168"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcbb.12168", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcbb.12168", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcbb.12168"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-05-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-10", "title": "Biofuels, Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change. A Review", "description": "Biofuels are fuels produced from biomass, mostly in liquid form, within a time frame sufficiently short to consider that their feedstock (biomass) can be renewed, contrarily to fossil fuels. This paper reviews the current and future biofuel technologies, and their development impacts (including on the climate) within given policy and economic frameworks. Current technologies make it possible to provide first generation biodiesel, ethanol or biogas to the transport sector to be blended with fossil fuels. Still under-development 2nd generation biofuels from lignocellulose should be available on the market by 2020. Research is active on the improvement of their conversion efficiency. A ten-fold increase compared with current cost-effective capacities would make them highly competitive. Within bioenergy policies, emphasis has been put on biofuels for transportation as this sector is fast-growing and represents a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Compared with fossil fuels, biofuel combustion can emit less greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle, considering that part of the emitted CO2 returns to the atmosphere where it was fixed from by photosynthesis in the first place. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is commonly used to assess the potential environmental impacts of biofuel chains, notably the impact on global warming. This tool, whose holistic nature is fundamental to avoid pollution trade-offs, is a standardised methodology that should make comparisons between biofuel and fossil fuel chains objective and thorough. However, it is a complex and time-consuming process, which requires lots of data, and whose methodology is still lacking harmonisation. Hence the life-cycle performances of biofuel chains vary widely in the literature. Furthermore, LCA is a site- and timeindependent tool that cannot take into account the spatial and temporal dimensions of emissions, and can hardly serve as a decision-making tool either at local or regional levels. Focusing on greenhouse gases, emission factors used in LCAs give a rough estimate of the potential average emissions on a national level. However, they do not take into account the types of crop, soil or management practices, for instance. Modelling the impact of local factors on the determinism of greenhouse gas emissions can provide better estimates for LCA on the local level, which would be the relevant scale and degree of reliability for decision-making purposes. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of the processes involved, most notably N2O emissions, is still needed to definitely improve the accuracy of LCA. Perennial crops are a promising option for biofuels, due to their rapid and efficient use of nitrogen, and their limited farming operations. However, the main overall limiting factor to biofuel development will ultimately be land availability. Given the available land areas, population growth rate and consumption behaviours, it would be possible to reach by 2030 a global 10% biofuel share in the transport sector, contributing to lower global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 1 GtCO2 eq.year\u22121 (IEA, 2006), provided that harmonised policies ensure that sustainability criteria for the production systems are respected worldwide. Furthermore, policies should also be more integrative across sectors, so that changes in energy efficiency, the automotive sector and global consumption patterns converge towards drastic reduction of the pressure on resources. Indeed, neither biofuels nor other energy source or carriers are likely to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic pressure on resources in a range that would compensate for this pressure growth. Hence, the first step is to reduce this pressure by starting from the variable that drives it up, i.e. anthropic consumptions.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "AGRICULTURAL PRATICES", "P05 - Ressources \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques et leur gestion", "P06 - Sources d'\u00e9nergie renouvelable", "NITROUS OXIDE", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "CLIMATE CHANGE", "BIOFUELS", "710", "02 engineering and technology", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16181", "7. Clean energy", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2570", "land-use change", "CARBON DIOXIDE", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018", "\u00e9nergie renouvelable", "POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS", "2. Zero hunger", "changement climatique", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_27465", "bioenergy potential", "nitrous oxide", "LCA", "BIOENERGY POTENTIAL", "LAND-USE CHANGE", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "source d'\u00e9nergie", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_926", "climate change", "politique \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique", "perennials", "ENERGY CROPS", "GREENHOUSE GASES", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28744", "oxyde d'azote", "P40 - M\u00e9t\u00e9orologie et climatologie", "PERENNIALS", "agricultural practices", "pollution par l'agriculture", "12. Responsible consumption", "dioxyde de carbone", "greenhouse gases", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25719", "biomasse", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1302", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666", "AGRONOMIE", "political and economic frameworks", "energy crops", "pratique culturale", "bio\u00e9nergie", "660", "carbon dioxide", "biofuels", "biocarburant", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16002", "13. Climate action", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16526"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal.science/cirad-00749753/file/Article_ASD.2010.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/agro/2009039"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy%20for%20Sustainable%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/agro/2009039"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-05-16", "title": "Sustainability impacts of increased forest biomass feedstock supply \u2013 a comparative assessment of technological solutions", "description": "Sustainably managed forests provide renewable raw material that can be used for primary/secondary conversion products and as biomass for energy generation. The potentially available amounts of timber, which are still lower than annual increments, have been published earlier. Access to this timber can be challenging for small-dimensioned assortments; however, technologically improved value chains can make them accessible while fulfilling economic and environment criteria. This paper evaluates the economic, environmental and social sustainability impacts of making the potentially available timber available with current and technologically improved value chains. This paper focuses on increasing the biomass feedstock supply for energy generation. Quantified impact assessments show which improvements - in terms of costs, employment, fuel and energy use, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions - can be expected if better mechanized machines are provided. Using three different methods - Sustainability Impacts Assessment (SIA), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Emission Saving Criteria (ESC) - we calculated current and innovative machine solutions in terms of fuel use, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions, to quantify the impact of the technology choice and also the effect of the choice of assessment method. Absolute stand-alone values can be misleading in analyses, and the use of different impact calculation approaches in parallel is clarifying the limits of using LCA-based approaches. The ESC has been discussed for the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive. Potential EU-wide results are presented.", "keywords": ["technological innovations", "ta1172", "600", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "ta4112", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "bioenergia", "teknologiset innovaatiot", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Bioenergy", "kest\u00e4vyys", "Renewable Energy Directive targets", "value chains"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Forest%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/14942119.2018.1459372"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-11-06", "title": "Site-Specific Global Warming Potentials Of Biogenic Co2 For Bioenergy: Contributions From Carbon Fluxes And Albedo Dynamics", "description": "Production of biomass for bioenergy can alter biogeochemical and biogeophysical mechanisms, thus affecting local and global climate. Recent scientific developments have mainly embraced impacts from land use changes resulting from area-expanded biomass production, with several extensive insights available. Comparably less attention, however, has been given to the assessment of direct land surface\u2013atmosphere climate impacts of bioenergy systems under rotation such as in plantations and forested ecosystems, whereby land use disturbances are only temporary. Here, following IPCC climate metrics, we assess bioenergy systems in light of two important dynamic land use climate factors, namely, the perturbation in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO _2 ) concentration caused by the timing of biogenic CO _2 fluxes, and temporary perturbations to surface reflectivity (albedo). Existing radiative forcing-based metrics can be adapted to include such dynamic mechanisms, but high spatial and temporal modeling resolution is required. Results show the importance of specifically addressing the climate forcings from biogenic CO _2 fluxes and changes in albedo, especially when biomass is sourced from forested areas affected by seasonal snow cover. The climate performance of bioenergy systems is highly dependent on biomass species, local climate variables, time horizons, and the climate metric considered. Bioenergy climate impact studies and accounting mechanisms should rapidly adapt to cover both biogeochemical and biogeophysical impacts, so that policy makers can rely on scientifically robust analyses and promote the most effective global climate mitigation options.", "keywords": ["biogenic CO2", "LCA", "Science", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "7. Clean energy", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "climate metrics", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "GE1-350", "TD1-1066", "albedo"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/045902/pdf/1748-9326_7_4_045902.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045902"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-11-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035012", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-10", "title": "Seasonal Energy Storage Using Bioenergy Production From Abandoned Croplands", "description": "Bioenergy has the unique potential to provide a dispatchable and carbon-negative component to renewable energy portfolios. However, the sustainability, spatial distribution, and capacity for bioenergy are critically dependent on highly uncertain land-use impacts of biomass agriculture. Biomass cultivation on abandoned agriculture lands is thought to reduce land-use impacts relative to biomass production on currently used croplands. While coarse global estimates of abandoned agriculture lands have been used for large-scale bioenergy assessments, more practical technological and policy applications will require regional, high-resolution information on land availability. Here, we present US county-level estimates of the magnitude and distribution of abandoned cropland and potential bioenergy production on this land using remote sensing data, agriculture inventories, and land-use modeling. These abandoned land estimates are 61% larger than previous estimates for the US, mainly due to the coarse resolution of data applied in previous studies. We apply the land availability results to consider the capacity of biomass electricity to meet the seasonal energy storage requirement in a national energy system that is dominated by wind and solar electricity production. Bioenergy from abandoned croplands can supply most of the seasonal storage needs for a range of energy production scenarios, regions, and biomass yield estimates. These data provide the basis for further down-scaling using models of spatially gridded land-use areas as well as a range of applications for the exploration of bioenergy sustainability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Science", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Q", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "land-use", "GE1-350", "seasonal energy storage", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035012"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035012", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035012", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035012"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-07-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.15120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-15", "title": "Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops", "description": "Abstract<p>This study evaluates the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) under perennial crops across the globe. It quantifies the effect of change from annual to perennial crops and the subsequent temporal changes in SOC stocks during the perennial crop cycle. It also presents an empirical model to estimate changes in the SOC content under crops as a function of time, land use, and site characteristics. We used a harmonized global dataset containing paired\uffe2\uff80\uff90comparison empirical values of SOC and different types of perennial crops (perennial grasses, palms, and woody plants) with different end uses: bioenergy, food, other bio\uffe2\uff80\uff90products, and short rotation coppice. Salient outcomes include: a 20\uffe2\uff80\uff90year period encompassing a change from annual to perennial crops led to an average 20% increase in SOC at 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm (6.0\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa04.6\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha gain) and a total 10% increase over the 0\uffe2\uff80\uff93100\uffc2\uffa0cm soil profile (5.7\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa010.9\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha). A change from natural pasture to perennial crop decreased SOC stocks by 1% over 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm (\uffe2\uff88\uff922.5\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa04.2\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha) and 10% over 0\uffe2\uff80\uff93100\uffc2\uffa0cm (\uffe2\uff88\uff9213.6\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa08.9\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha). The effect of a land use change from forest to perennial crops did not show significant impacts, probably due to the limited number of plots; but the data indicated that while a 2% increase in SOC was observed at 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm (16.81\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa055.1\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha), a decrease in 24% was observed at 30\uffe2\uff80\uff93100\uffc2\uffa0cm (\uffe2\uff88\uff9240.1\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa016.8\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha). Perennial crops generally accumulate SOC through time, especially woody crops; and temperature was the main driver explaining differences in SOC dynamics, followed by crop age, soil bulk density, clay content, and depth. We present empirical evidence showing that the FAO perennialization strategy is reasonable, underscoring the role of perennial crops as a useful component of climate change mitigation strategies.</p", "keywords": ["MISCANTHUS", "QH301 Biology", "Carbon Dynamics in Peatland Ecosystems", "SEQUESTRATION", "01 natural sciences", "630", "BIOMASS", "862695", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "NE/M021327/1", "woody crops", "Soil water", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Development and Impacts of Bioenergy Crops", "STOCKS", "NE/N017854/1", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "General Environmental Science", "agriculture", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "Ecology", "NE/P019455/1", "Life Sciences", "Agriculture", "LAND-USE CHANGE", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "fruit crops", "Soil carbon", "NE/M016900/1", "Physical Sciences", "emission factors", "DECOMPOSITION", "land use change", "Crops", " Agricultural", "Carbon Sequestration", "610", "Soil Science", "Environmental science", "arable crops", "QH301", "FOOD", "TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY", "Environmental Chemistry", "774378", "Agroforestry", "European Commission", "Biology", "carbon crops", "Land use", " land-use change and forestry", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "carbon balance", "Soil science", "Soil Fertility", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Perennial plant", "Agronomy", "meta-analysis", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Land use", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "MATTER", "Agronomy and Crop Science"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.15120"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15120"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.15120", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.15120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.15120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcbb.12054", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-12", "title": "Land Use Change From C3 Grassland To C4 Miscanthus: Effects On Soil Carbon Content And Estimated Mitigation Benefit After Six Years", "description": "Abstract<p>To date, most Miscanthus trials and commercial fields have been planted on arable land. Energy crops will need to be grown more on lower grade lands unsuitable for arable crops. Grasslands represent a major land resource for energy crops. In grasslands, where soil organic carbon (SOC) levels can be high, there have been concerns that the carbon mitigation benefits of bioenergy from Miscanthus could be offset by losses in SOC associated with land use change. At a site in Wales (UK), we quantified the relatively short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term impacts (6\uffc2\uffa0years) of four novel Miscanthus hybrids and Miscanthus\uffc2\uffa0\uffc3\uff97\uffc2\uffa0giganteus on SOC in improved grassland. After 6\uffc2\uffa0years, using stable carbon isotope ratios (13C/12C), the amount of Miscanthus derived C (C4) in total SOC was considerable (ca. 12%) and positively correlated to belowground biomass of different hybrids. Nevertheless, significant changes in SOC stocks (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm) were not detected as C4 Miscanthus carbon replaced the initial C3 grassland carbon; however, initial SOC decreased more in the presence of higher belowground biomass. We ascribed this apparently contradictory result to the rhizosphere priming effect triggered by easily available C sources. Observed changes in SOC partitioning were modelled using the RothC soil carbon turnover model and projected for 20\uffc2\uffa0years showing that there is no significant change in SOC throughout the anticipated life of a Miscanthus crop. We interpret our observations to mean that the new labile C from Miscanthus has replaced the labile C from the grassland and, therefore, planting Miscanthus causes an insignificant change in soil organic carbon. The overall C mitigation benefit is therefore not decreased by depletion of soil C and is due to substitution of fossil fuel by the aboveground biomass, in this instance 73\uffe2\uff80\uff93108\uffc2\uffa0Mg C\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for the lowest and highest yielding hybrids, respectively, after 6\uffc2\uffa0years.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "bioenergy; miscanthus; land use; stable isotope", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12054"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcbb.12054", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcbb.12054", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcbb.12054"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-04-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-09-05", "title": "Land-Use Change To Bioenergy Production In Europe: Implications For The Greenhouse Gas Balance And Soil Carbon", "description": "Abstract<p>Bioenergy from crops is expected to make a considerable contribution to climate change mitigation. However, bioenergy is not necessarily carbon neutral because emissions of CO2, N2O and CH4 during crop production may reduce or completely counterbalance CO2 savings of the substituted fossil fuels. These greenhouse gases (GHGs) need to be included into the carbon footprint calculation of different bioenergy crops under a range of soil conditions and management practices. This review compiles existing knowledge on agronomic and environmental constraints and GHG balances of the major European bioenergy crops, although it focuses on dedicated perennial crops such as Miscanthus and short rotation coppice species. Such second\uffe2\uff80\uff90generation crops account for only 3% of the current European bioenergy production, but field data suggest they emit 40% to &gt;99% less N2O than conventional annual crops. This is a result of lower fertilizer requirements as well as a higher N\uffe2\uff80\uff90use efficiency, due to effective N\uffe2\uff80\uff90recycling. Perennial energy crops have the potential to sequester additional carbon in soil biomass if established on former cropland (0.44\uffc2\uffa0Mg soil C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for poplar and willow and 0.66\uffc2\uffa0Mg soil C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for Miscanthus). However, there was no positive or even negative effects on the C balance if energy crops are established on former grassland. Increased bioenergy production may also result in direct and indirect land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use changes with potential high C losses when native vegetation is converted to annual crops. Although dedicated perennial energy crops have a high potential to improve the GHG balance of bioenergy production, several agronomic and economic constraints still have to be overcome.</p>", "keywords": ["carbon footprint", "short rotation coppice", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Miscanthus", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "Carbon debt", "CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; BIOENERGY", "Biofuel", "Land management", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "carbon debt", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrous oxide", "nitrous oxide", "Soil organic carbon", "methane", "land management", "15. Life on land", "Carbon footprint", "soil organic carbon", "13. Climate action", "biofuel", "Short rotation coppice", "Methane"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/117133/1/117133%20j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01116.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-09-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01174.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-05-15", "title": "Modelling The Carbon And Nitrogen Balances Of Direct Land Use Changes From Energy Crops In Denmark: A Consequential Life Cycle Inventory", "description": "Abstract<p>This paper addresses the conversion of Danish agricultural land from food/feed crops to energy crops. To this end, a life cycle inventory, which relates the input and output flows from and to the environment of 528 different crop systems, is built and described. This includes seven crops (annuals and perennials), two soil types (sandy loam and sand), two climate types (wet and dry), three initial soil carbon level (high, average, low), two time horizons for soil carbon changes (20 and 100\uffc2\uffa0years), two residues management practices (removal and incorporation into soil) as well as three soil carbon turnover rate reductions in response to the absence of tillage for some perennial crops (0%, 25%, 50%). For all crop systems, nutrient balances, balances between above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground residues, soil carbon changes, biogenic carbon dioxide flows, emissions of nitrogen compounds and losses of macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and micronutrients are presented. The inventory results highlight Miscanthus as a promising energy crop, indicating it presents the lowest emissions of nitrogen compounds, the highest amount of carbon dioxide sequestrated from the atmosphere, a relatively high carbon turnover efficiency and allows to increase soil organic carbon. Results also show that the magnitude of these benefits depends on the harvest season, soil types and climatic conditions. Inventory results further highlight winter wheat as the only annual crop where straw removal for bioenergy may be sustainable, being the only annual crop not involving losses of soil organic carbon as a result of harvesting the straw. This, however, is conditional to manure application, and is only true on sandy soils.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "direct land use changes", "carbon", "straw", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "life cycle inventory", "nitrogen", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01174.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GCB%20Bioenergy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01174.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01174.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01174.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-05-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-11", "title": "Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p> Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We assess the opportunities and risks associated with these options through the lens of their potential impacts on ecosystem services (Nature's Contributions to People; NCPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We find that all land-based GGR options contribute positively to at least some NCPs and SDGs. Wetland restoration and SCS almost exclusively deliver positive impacts. A few GGR options, such as afforestation, BECCS, and biochar potentially impact negatively some NCPs and SDGs, particularly when implemented at scale, largely through competition for land. For those that present risks or are least understood, more research is required, and demonstration projects need to proceed with caution. For options that present low risks and provide cobenefits, implementation can proceed more rapidly following no-regrets principles. </p></article>", "keywords": ["330", "Sustainable Development Goals", "710", "SDG", "CDR", "01 natural sciences", "333", "nature's contributions to people", "12. Responsible consumption", "wetland restoration", "soil carbon sequestration", "negative emission technology", "afforestation/reforestation", "11. Sustainability", "BECCS", "NCPs", "biochar", "UN Sustainable Development Goals", "carbon dioxide removal", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "bioenergy with carbon capture and storage", "greenhouse gas removal", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "SDG 15", "NET", "Nature's Contributions to People", "13. Climate action", "ecosystem services", "terrestrial enhanced weathering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annual%20Review%20of%20Environment%20and%20Resources", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129", "name": "item", "description": "10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0102062", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-15", "title": "Effects Of Biochar On Soil Microbial Biomass After Four Years Of Consecutive Application In The North China Plain", "description": "Open AccessL'effet \u00e0 long terme de l'application de biochar sur la biomasse microbienne du sol n'est pas bien compris. Nous avons mesur\u00e9 le carbone (MBC) et l'azote (MBN) de la biomasse microbienne du sol dans une exp\u00e9rience sur le terrain au cours d'une saison de croissance du bl\u00e9 d'hiver apr\u00e8s quatre ann\u00e9es cons\u00e9cutives sans (CK), 4,5 (B4,5) et 9,0 t de biochar ha\u22121 an\u22121 (B9,0) appliqu\u00e9. \u00c0 titre de comparaison, un traitement avec incorporation de r\u00e9sidus de paille de bl\u00e9 (SR) a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 inclus. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que l'application de biochar augmentait significativement le MBC du sol par rapport au traitement CK, et que la taille de l'effet augmentait avec le taux d'application de biochar. Le traitement B9.0 a montr\u00e9 le m\u00eame effet sur le CSM que le traitement SR. Les effets des traitements sur la MBN du sol \u00e9taient moins forts que pour le MBC. Le ratio de biomasse microbienne C N a \u00e9t\u00e9 significativement augment\u00e9 par le biochar. Le biochar pourrait diminuer la fraction de la biomasse N min\u00e9ralis\u00e9e (KN), ce qui sous-estimerait le MBN du sol pour les traitements au biochar, et surestimerait les rapports C/N de la biomasse microbienne. La fluctuation saisonni\u00e8re dans le CSM \u00e9tait moins importante pour les sols modifi\u00e9s par le biochar que pour les traitements CK et SR, ce qui sugg\u00e8re que le biochar a induit un environnement moins extr\u00eame pour les micro-organismes tout au long de la saison. Il y avait une corr\u00e9lation positive significative entre le CSM et la teneur en eau du sol (CFS), mais il n'y avait pas de corr\u00e9lation significative entre le CSM et la temp\u00e9rature du sol. Les modifications du biochar peuvent donc r\u00e9duire la variabilit\u00e9 temporelle des conditions environnementales pour la croissance microbienne dans ce syst\u00e8me, r\u00e9duisant ainsi les fluctuations temporelles de la dynamique du C et de l'N.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "Carbon sequestration", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Geochemistry and Utilization of Coal and Coal Byproducts", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Geochemistry and Petrology", "Soil water", "Development and Impacts of Bioenergy Crops", "Biomass", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Biochar Application", "Soil science", "2. Zero hunger", "Analysis of Variance", "Q", "R", "Life Sciences", "Straw", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil carbon", "Carbon", "Agronomy", "6. Clean water", "Earth and Planetary Sciences", "Biochar", "Chemistry", "13. Climate action", "Charcoal", "Physical Sciences", "Environmental chemistry", "Medicine", "Growing season", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Agronomy and Crop Science", "Animal science", "Pyrolysis", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102062"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0102062", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0102062", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0102062"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-07-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.859063", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:21:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-17", "title": "Interacting Bioenergetic and Stoichiometric Controls on Microbial Growth", "description": "<p>Microorganisms function as open systems that exchange matter and energy with their surrounding environment. Even though mass (carbon and nutrients) and energy exchanges are tightly linked, there is a lack of integrated approaches that combine these fluxes and explore how they jointly impact microbial growth. Such links are essential to predicting how the growth rate of microorganisms varies, especially when the stoichiometry of carbon- (C) and nitrogen (N)-uptake is not balanced. Here, we present a theoretical framework to quantify the microbial growth rate for conditions of C-, N-, and energy-(co-) limitations. We use this framework to show how the C:N ratio and the degree of reduction of the organic matter (OM), which is also the electron donor, availability of electron acceptors (EAs), and the different sources of N together control the microbial growth rate under C, nutrient, and energy-limited conditions. We show that the growth rate peaks at intermediate values of the degree of reduction of OM under oxic and C-limited conditions, but not under N-limited conditions. Under oxic conditions and with N-poor OM, the growth rate is higher when the inorganic N (NInorg)-source is ammonium compared to nitrate due to the additional energetic cost involved in nitrate reduction. Under anoxic conditions, when nitrate is both EA and NInorg-source, the growth rates of denitrifiers and microbes performing the dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia (DNRA) are determined by both OM degree of reduction and nitrate-availability. Consistent with the data, DNRA is predicted to foster growth under extreme nitrate-limitation and with a reduced OM, whereas denitrifiers are favored as nitrate becomes more available and in the presence of oxidized OM. Furthermore, the growth rate is reduced when catabolism is coupled to low energy yielding EAs (e.g., sulfate) because of the low carbon use efficiency (CUE). However, the low CUE also decreases the nutrient demand for growth, thereby reducing N-limitation. We conclude that bioenergetics provides a useful conceptual framework for explaining growth rates under different metabolisms and multiple resource-limitations.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "denitrification", "660", "nitrogen limitation", "microbial growth", "Biological Sciences", "bioenergetics", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "stoichiometry", "DNRA", "thermodynamics", "03 medical and health sciences", "Geovetenskap och relaterad milj\u00f6vetenskap", "Microbiology (Microbiology in the medical area to be 30109)", "Biologiska vetenskaper", "Bioenergy", "Earth and Related Environmental Sciences", "energy limitation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/28342/1/chakrawal-a-et-al-220615.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.859063"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.859063", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2022.859063", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2022.859063"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agriculture3010072", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:21:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-02-06", "description": "<p>Corn (Zea mays L.) stover is a potential bioenergy feedstock, but little is known about the impacts of reducing stover return on yield and soil quality in the Northern US Corn Belt. Our study objectives were to measure the impact of three stover return rates (Full (~7.8 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921), Moderate (~3.8 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) or Low (~1.5 Mg ha yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) Return) on corn and soybean (Glycine max. L [Merr.]) yields and on soil dynamic properties on a chisel-tilled (Chisel) field, and well- (NT1995) or newly- (NT2005) established no-till managed fields. Stover return rate did not affect corn and soybean yields except under NT1995 where Low Return (2.88 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921) reduced yields compared with Full and Moderate Return (3.13 Mg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921). In NT1995 at 0\uffe2\uff80\uff935 cm depth, particulate organic matter in Full Return and Moderate Return (14.3 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921) exceeded Low Return (11.3 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921). In NT2005, acid phosphatase activity was reduced about 20% in Low Return compared to Full Return. Also the Low Return had an increase in erodible-sized dry aggregates at the soil surface compared to Full Return. Three or fewer cycles of stover treatments revealed little evidence for short-term impacts on crop yield, but detected subtle soil changes that indicate repeated harvests may have negative consequences if stover removed.</p>", "keywords": ["cellulosic feedstock; sustainability; residue management; bioenergy; dry aggregate stability; FAME; particulate organic matter; microbial biomass; soil organic carbon", "Agriculture (General)", "bioenergy", "7. Clean energy", "S1-972", "dry aggregate stability", "particulate organic matter", "2. Zero hunger", "residue management", "microbial biomass", "cellulosic feedstock", "jel:Q1", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "FAME", "6. Clean water", "soil organic carbon", "jel:Q11", "jel:Q10", "jel:Q15", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "jel:Q14", "jel:Q13", "jel:Q12", "jel:Q18", "jel:Q17", "jel:Q16"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/3/1/72/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture3010072"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agriculture3010072", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agriculture3010072", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agriculture3010072"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-02-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/en4060845", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:21:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-25", "description": "<p>This article reviews and compares assessments of three biodiesel fuels: (1) transesterified lipids, (2) hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), and (3) woody biomass-to-liquid (BTL) Fischer-Tropsch diesel and selected feedstock options. The article attempts to rank the environmental performance and costs of fuel and feedstock combinations. Due to inter-study differences in goal and study assumptions, the ranking was mostly qualitative and intra-study results are emphasized. Results indicate that HVO made from wastes or by-products such as tall oil, tallow or used cooking oil outperform transesterified lipids and BTL from woody material, both with respect to environmental life cycle impacts and costs. These feedstock options are, however, of limited availability, and to produce larger volumes of biofuels other raw materials must also be used. BTL from woody biomass seems promising with good environmental performance and the ability not to compete with food production. Production of biofuels from agricultural feedstock sources requires much energy and leads to considerable emissions due to agrochemical inputs. Thus, such biodiesel fuels are ranked lowest in this comparison. Production of feedstock is the most important life cycle stage. Avoiding detrimental land use changes and maintaining good agricultural or forestry management practices are the main challenges to ensure that biofuels can be a sustainable option for the future transport sector.</p>", "keywords": ["Technology", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "biodiesel", "security", "02 engineering and technology", "bioenergy", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "jel:Q40", "mitigation", "jel:Q", "jel:Q43", "jel:Q42", "11. Sustainability", "jel:Q41", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "jel:Q48", "jel:Q47", "climate", "jel:Q49", "2. Zero hunger", "LCA", "T", "biodiesel; HVO; BTL; biofuels; LCA; bioenergy; forestry; energy; security; climate; mitigation; transport", "forestry", "jel:Q0", "15. Life on land", "jel:Q4", "biofuels", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "BTL", "transport", "HVO", "energy"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/en4060845"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Energies", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/en4060845", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/en4060845", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/en4060845"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-05-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/fermentation9070625", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:21:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-07-03", "title": "Advances in the Application of Quorum Sensing to Regulate Electrode Biofilms in Bioelectrochemical Systems", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are an emerging technology for wastewater treatment and resource recovery. These systems facilitate electron transfer between microorganisms and electrodes, enabling their application in various fields, such as electricity production, bioremediation, biosensors, and biocatalysis. However, electrode biofilms, which play a critical role in BESs, face several challenges (e.g., a long acclimation period, low attached biomass, high electron transfer resistance, and poor tolerance and stability) that limit the development of this technology. Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication method among microorganisms that can enhance the performance of BESs by regulating electrode biofilms. QS regulation can positively impact electrode biofilms by enhancing extracellular electron transfer (EET), biofilm formation, cellular activity, the secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and the construction of microbial community. In this paper, the characteristics of anode electrogenic biofilms and cathode electrotrophic biofilms in BESs, EET mechanisms, and the main factors affecting biofilm formation were summarized. Additionally, QS regulation mechanisms for biofilm formation, strategies for enhancing and inhibiting QS, and the application of QS regulation for electrode biofilms in BESs were systematically reviewed and discussed. This paper provides valuable background information and insights for future research and development of BES platforms based on QS regulation of electrode biofilms.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "TP500-660", "03 medical and health sciences", "Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol", "quorum sensing", "bioenergy", "electrode biofilms", "01 natural sciences", "bioelectrochemical systems", "6. 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However, comprehensive  evaluations of how switchgrass cultivation and nitrogen (N) management  impact soil and plant parameters remain incomplete. We  conducted\u00a0field trials in three years (2016\u20132018) at six  locations in the North Central Great Lakes Region to evaluate the effects  of cropping systems (switchgrass, restored prairie,\u00a0undisturbed  control) and N rates (0, 56 kg N ha-1\u00a0yr-1) on biomass yield and  soil physicochemical, microbial, and enzymatic  parameters.\u00a0Switchgrass cropping system yielded  an\u00a0aboveground biomass 2.9\u20133.3 times higher than\u00a0the  other two systems (Jayawardena et al., In submission) but our study found  that this biomass accumulation didn\u2019t reduce soil dissolved organic C  (DOC), total dissolved N (TDN), or bacterial diversity. The annual  aboveground biomass removal for bioenergy feedstock, however,  reduced\u00a0soil\u00a0microbial biomass C (MBC) and N (MBN) and  bacterial richness in the 2nd\u00a0and 3rd\u00a0years; despite  this, continuous monocropping of switchgrass improved soil TDN, inorganic  N, bacterial diversity, and shoot biomass in the 2nd\u00a0and/or  3rd\u00a0years when compared to the 1st\u00a0year. N fertilization  increased aboveground biomass yield by 1.2 times and significantly  increased soil TDN, MBN, and the shoot biomass of switchgrass when  compared to the unfertilized control. Locations with higher C and N  contents and lower C:N ratio had higher aboveground biomass, MBC, MBN, and  the activity of BG, CBH, and UREA enzymes; by contrast, locations with  higher pH had higher soil TDN and activity of NAG and LAP  enzymes.\u00a0Our research demonstrates that switchgrass cultivation  could improve or maintain soil N content and N fertilization can increase  plant biomass yield. The comprehensive data also can inform future  biogeochemical models to successfully implement switchgrass for bioenergy  production.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Switchgrass", "soil fertility", "FOS: Agricultural sciences", "Bioenergy", "Microbial richness and diversity", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "N fertilization", "6. 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The R script uses this data to perform the statistical  analysis used in the publication. ## Description of the data and file  structure The soil and root data contain measured variables within each  experimental unit across multiple years during the study period. The  variable in the R script called 'top_level_directory' can be  changed to the path of the download files' directory to run the  analysis. Note that NA = not available. ## Code/Software There is an R  script provided that conducts the statistical analysis used in this study.  The necessary packages are listed at the top of the script. The variable  in the script called 'top_level_directory' can be changed to the  path of the download files' directory to run the analysis.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "native grasses", "Biofuel feedstocks", "Biofuel Cropping System Experiment", "soil nitrogen", "Bioenergy feedstock", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "15. Life on land", "7. 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During bioenergy sorghum\u2019s long growing  season, plants produce ~175 nodal roots In review bearing lateral roots  that take up water and nutrients from &gt;2 m deep in soil profiles,  and aerial roots that support a complex phyllosphere. In the current  study, nodal root bud development, a slow process spanning ~40 days, was  characterized using microscopy and transcriptome analysis. A first ring of  10-15 nodal root buds was initiated in the stem pulvinus of phytomer 7  near sub-epidermal vascular bundles. A second ring of buds formed above  the first ring much later in phytomer development. Nascent nodal root buds  from phytomer 7 exhibited relatively high expression of pericycle marker  genes (PFA) and genes involved in auxin transport (ABCB19, PIN4, LAX2),  cytokinin signaling (TSO, MYB3R1), and cell proliferation (CYCB2;4,  CDKB2;1, REM1). Following initiation, expression of genes involved in cell  proliferation and cytokinin-signaling decreased while expression of genes  involved in proliferative arrest, ABA-signaling, dormancy and stress  tolerance increased. Further bud development was correlated with increased  expression of WOX11 and PLT5 followed by PLT2, PLT4 and genes encoding RGF  peptides that regulate PLT-expression and bud development. Expression of  the ARF7-regulated LBD29, a gene required for nodal root formation,  increased in parallel with increasing bud size to a maximum late in NRB  development. Appearance of the nodal root bud cap late in development  coincided with expression of SMB and FEZ, whereas genes such as WOX5 and  two MYB36 family members were expressed at higher levels in outgrowing  aerial roots. Genes involved in gibberellin, brassinosteroid,  strigolactone, ethylene, jasmonate, salicyclic acid, and eATP signaling  showed complex patterns of expression during nodal root bud formation.  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Second-generation, lignocellulosic biorefineries are being established within the European Union to reduce the dependency on fossil resources by biofuel and bioenergy production. But to cover the demand for sustainably produced foods, energy, and nutraceutical products of biorefineries, the biomass supply needs to be diversified and enlarged.Research is refocusing on existing halophytic plants, which thrive in saline environments. The additional extraction of bioactive compoundscan ensures the economic viability of the integrated biorefinery. This review provides an overview of opportunities and challenges faced in the design of integrated halophyte biorefineries, which combine the production of foods and bioenergy with the coproduction of value-added bioactive compounds from lignocellulosic biomass.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "biochemicals", "second generation", "13. Climate action", "circular economy", "agricultural residues", "biorefining", "Biomass", "bioenergy", "15. 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Partial cutting, which removes some individual trees from a forest, is one of the major and widespread forest management practices that can significantly alter both forest structure and carbon (C) storage. Using 746 observations from 82 publications, we synthesized the impacts of partial cutting on three variables associated with forest structure (i.e. mean annual growth of diameter at breast height (DBH), basal area (BA), and volume) and four variables related to various C stock components (i.e. aboveground biomass C (AGBC), understory C, forest floor C, and mineral soil C). Results shows that the growth of DBH elevated by 112% after partial cutting, compared to the uncut control, while stand BA and volume reduced immediately by 34% and 29%, respectively. On average, partial cutting reduced AGBC by 43%, increased understory C storage by 392%, but did not show significant effects on C storages on forest floor and in mineral soil. All the effects on DBH growth, stand BA, volume, and AGBC intensified linearly with cutting intensity (CI) and decreased linearly with the number of recovery years (RY). In addition to the strong impacts of CI and RY, other factors such as climate zone and forest type also affected forest responses to partial cutting. The data assembled in this synthesis were not sufficient to determine how long it would take for a complete recovery after cutting because long-term experiments were rare. Future efforts should be tailored to increase the duration of the experiments and balance geographic locations of field studies.                         </p>", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Sustainable forest management", "Volume (thermodynamics)", "Diameter at breast height", "Forest Carbon Sequestration", "Estimation of Forest Biomass and Carbon Stocks", "Quantum mechanics", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Basal area", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Life", "Forest structure", "QH501-531", "Development and Impacts of Bioenergy Crops", "FOS: Mathematics", "Climate change", "Carbon stock", "Agroforestry", "Biology", "QH540-549.5", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "QE1-996.5", "Global and Planetary Change", "Understory", "Forest management", "Ecology", "Geography", "Physics", "Confidence interval", "Statistics", "Canopy", "Life Sciences", "Geology", "Forestry", "15. 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N., E. R. Brzostek, C. Medici, E. Shevliakova, D. N. L. Menge, and R. P. Phillips. 2017. Feedbacks between plant N demand and rhizosphere priming depend on type of mycorrhizal association. Ecology Letters 20:1043-1053.']}", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Biogeochemical bioenergy model", "mechanistic tillage simulation", "biofuel sustainability", "15. Life on land", "7. 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However, their impact on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to assess the long-term impact of converting arable land to perennial bioenergy crops on SOC stocks for two crop species (miscanthus and switchgrass) and several crop management practices (nitrogen fertilization, harvest date and irrigation). We analyzed two long-term experiments. Site 1 was located in Estr\u00e9es-Mons, northern France (49.872\u00b0N, 3.013\u00b0E), and corresponded to the INRAE long-term experiment called \u201cBiomass &amp; Environment\u201d. Site 2 was located in Montgaillard-Lauragais, southern France (43.433\u00b0N, 1.679\u00b0E), and was managed by Arvalis. Both sites were sampled initially and after 12 (site 1) or 13 (site 2) years. SOC concentrations, \u03b413C values and bulk densities were measured in order do calculate SOC stocks at equivalent soil mass and changes in \u201cnew\u201d and \u201cold\u201d SOC stocks. 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