A review of the impacts of Short Rotation Coppice cultivation on water issues

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-206

  Dimitriou, Loannis ^a   Busch, Gerald ^b   Jacobs, Silvia ^c   Schmidt Walter, Paul ^c   Lamersdorf, Norbert ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b BALSA Buro for Applied Landscape Ecology and Scenario Analysis   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bio to energy; Biomass; Nutrient leaching; Poplar; Short Rotation Coppice; Water balance; Water quality; Willow

Indexed keywords

POPULUS; POPULUS SP.; SALIX; SALIX SP.;

EID: 73349104969     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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