Comment on "modeling miscanthus in the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) to simulate its water quality effects as a bioenergy crop"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 6211-6212

  Zhang, Xuesong ^a   Izaurralde, R César ^a   Arnold, Jeffrey G ^b   Sammons, Nancy B ^b   Manowitz, David H ^a   Thomson, Allison M ^a   Williams, Jimmy R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; WATER;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE; CROP; ENERGY CROP; GRASS; HARVEST; LAND USE; LETTER; MILLET; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PLANT RESIDUE; PLANT ROOT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BIOFUELS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; SOIL; WATER;

MISCANTHUS;

EID: 79960512220     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201463x     Document Type: Letter

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