Ecologically sustainable bioenergy cropping systems: Species selection and habitat considerations

Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-117

  Webster, Christopher R ^a   Flaspohler, David ^a   Pawson, Steve ^b   Brockerhoff, Eckehard ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

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