Long-term water balance and sustainable production of Miscanthus energy crops in the Loess Plateau of China

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-57

  Liu, Wei ^a   Mi, Jia ^a   Song, Zhihong ^a   Yan, Juan ^b   Li, Jianqiang ^b   Sang, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Miscanthus lutarioriparius; Soil water content; Sustainable production; Water balance model

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; MISCANTHUS; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; REFORESTATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOIL MOISTURE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; CROP YIELD; ENERGY CROP; GRASS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATER CONTENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

MISCANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84896733289     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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