Predicting Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Soil Carbon from Changing Pasture to an Energy Crop

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Duval, Benjamin D ^a,b,d   Anderson Teixeira, Kristina J ^a,e   Davis, Sarah C ^a,f   Keogh, Cindy ^c   Long, Stephen P ^a,b   Parton, William J ^c   DeLucia, Evan H ^a,b  

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

^b Global Change Solutions LLC   (United States)

^c Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory   (United States)

^d U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; COMBUSTION; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPPING SYSTEM; DRY MASS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY CROP; GRAZING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HISTOSOL; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PASTURE; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPODOSOL; SUGARCANE; VEGETABLE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATTLE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METHANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROUS OXIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCHARUM; SOIL;

EID: 84882733891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072019     Document Type: Article

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