Modeling state-level soil carbon emission factors under various scenarios for direct land use change associated with United States biofuel feedstock production

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 299-310

  Kwon, Ho Young ^a   Mueller, Steffen ^b   Dunn, Jennifer B ^c   Wander, Michelle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct land use change; Process based modeling; Soil C emissions factors; Surrogate CENTURY soil organic C model; United States biofuel feedstock production

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL FEEDSTOCKS; C EMISSIONS; LAND-USE CHANGE; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; SOIL ORGANIC C;

FEEDSTOCKS; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL; CARBON EMISSION; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIONAL STRATEGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERENNIAL PLANT; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CARBON;

EMISSION; FORESTRY; FUELS; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; POLLUTION; SOIL;

UNITED STATES;

MISCANTHUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84879411015     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.02.021     Document Type: Article

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