Assessing regional hydrology and water quality implications of large-scale biofuel feedstock production in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 9174-9182

  Demissie, Yonas ^a   Yan, Eugene ^a   Wu, May ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; CORN YIELDS; FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION; FOREST RESIDUE; LOCAL SCALE; MIXED EFFECTS; PHOSPHORUS LOADING; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL-WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAM QUALITY; TIME STEP; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; UPPER MISSISSIPPI; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER QUANTITIES; WATERSHED MODELS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDSTOCKS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PHOSPHORUS; SOILS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOFUEL; CROP RESIDUE; CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; MAIZE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER BASIN; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGY; MODEL; NUTRIENT LOADING; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; RIVER BASIN; SOIL EROSION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

BIOFUELS; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; ZEA MAYS;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84865474214     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300769k     Document Type: Article

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