Growing season greenhouse gas flux from switchgrass in the northern great plains

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 315-319

  Schmer, M R ^a   Liebig, M A ^b   Hendrickson, J R ^b   Tanaka, D L ^b   Phillips, R L ^b  

^a USDA Agricultural Research Service Lincoln Nebraska   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Greenhouse gas flux; Greenhouse gas intensity; Nitrous oxide; Northern great Plains; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BIO-ENERGY; DRY MATTERS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GHG FLUX; GROWING SEASON; HARVEST YIELDS; N FERTILIZATION; N FERTILIZERS; NITROUS OXIDE; NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; STATIC CHAMBERS; SWITCHGRASS;

BIOFUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRASS; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWING SEASON; HARVESTING; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL EMISSION;

GREAT PLAINS;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84864293085     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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