Diversity, productivity and landscape-level effects in North American grasslands managed for biomass production

Biofuels

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-461

  Webster, Christopher R ^a   Flaspohler, David J ^a   Jackson, Randall D ^b   Meehan, Timothy D ^b   Gratton, Claudio ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; BIOENERGY SOURCES; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPPING SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; NORTH AMERICAN; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SPATIAL SCALE; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

CULTIVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ETHANOL; PLANTS (BOTANY);

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 81055142736     PISSN: 17597269     EISSN: 17597277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/bfs.10.18     Document Type: Review

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