Sustainable bioenergy production from marginal lands in the US Midwest

Ilya Gelfand (), Ritvik Sahajpal, Xuesong Zhang, R. César Izaurralde, Katherine L. Gross and G. Philip Robertson
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Ilya Gelfand: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University
Ritvik Sahajpal: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University
Xuesong Zhang: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University
R. César Izaurralde: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University
Katherine L. Gross: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University
G. Philip Robertson: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University

Nature, 2013, vol. 493, issue 7433, 514-517

Abstract: A comparative assessment of six alternative cropping systems over 20 years shows that, once well established, successional herbaceous vegetation grown on marginal lands has a direct greenhouse gas emissions mitigation capacity that rivals that of purpose-grown crops.

Date: 2013
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