Establishment and Short-term Productivity of Annual and Perennial Bioenergy Crops Across a Landscape Gradient

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 885-898

  Wilson, Danielle M ^a   Heaton, Emily A ^a   Schulte, Lisa A ^a   Gunther, Theodore P ^a   Shea, Monika E ^a   Hall, Richard B ^a   Headlee, William Landon ^a   Moore, Kenneth J ^a   Boersma, Nicholas N ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Biomass yield; Hybrid aspen; Landscape Biomass Project; Short rotation woody crops; Sorghum; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOMASS PROJECTS; BIOMASS YIELD; HYBRID ASPEN; SHORT-ROTATION WOODY CROPS; SORGHUM; SWITCHGRASS;

CROPS;

GLYCINE MAX; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POPULUS; POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS GRANDIDENTATA; SORGHUM BICOLOR; TRITICOSECALE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84906783563     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-014-9409-9     Document Type: Article

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