Implications of productivity and nutrient requirements on greenhouse gas balance of annual and perennial bioenergy crops

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 425-438

  Cadoux, Stephane ^a   Ferchaud, Fabien ^b   Demay, Charlotte ^b   Boizard, Hubert ^b   Machet, Jean Marie ^b   Fourdinier, Emilie ^b   Preudhomme, Matthieu ^b   Chabbert, Brigitte ^c,d   Gosse, Ghislain ^e   Mary, Bruno ^b  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b Inst Natl de la Rech Agronomique   (France)

^c UMR614 FARE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^e Agro Transfert Ressources et Territoires   (France)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Biomass; C3 crops; C4 crops; Ethanol; Greenhouse gas; Legume crops; Lignocelluloses; Nitrogen; Nutrient use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ETHANOL; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HARVESTING; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG); GREENHOUSE GAS BALANCE; LIGNOCELLULOSES; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT; NUTRIENT-USE EFFICIENCIES; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84901951550     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12065     Document Type: Article

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