Progress toward evaluating the sustainability of switchgrass as a bioenergy crop using the SWAT model

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1547-1556

  Baskaran, L ^a   Jager, H I ^a   Schweizer, P E ^a   Srinivasan, R ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Functional validation; River flow; Sensitivity analysis; Sustainability; Switchgrass; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION; RIVER FLOW; SUSTAINABILITY; SWITCHGRASS;

BIOFUELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FEEDSTOCKS; FORECASTING; PROFITABILITY; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

BIOENERGY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GRASS; PROFITABILITY; RIVER FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 78149391428     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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