Growing fuel: A sustainability assessment of willow biomass crops

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 411-418

  Volk, Timothy A ^a   Verwijst, Theo ^b   Tharakan, Pradeep J ^a   Abrahamson, Lawrence P ^a   White, Edwin H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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EID: 84957660234     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0411:GFASAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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