Mitigation opportunities for life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions during feedstock production across heterogeneous landscapes

Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-219

  Adler, Paul R ^a   Del Grosso, Stephen J ^a   Inman, Daniel ^b   Jenkins, Robin E ^c   Spatari, Sabrina ^d   Zhang, Yimin ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d Drexel University   (United States)

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EID: 84880898040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386897-8.00012-7     Document Type: Chapter

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