Characterization factors for land use impacts on biodiversity in life cycle assessment based on direct measures of plant species richness in European farmland in the ‘Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forest’ biome

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 580, Issue , 2017, Pages 358-366

  Knudsen, Marie Trydeman ^a   Hermansen, John E ^a   Cederberg, Christel ^b   Herzog, Felix ^c   Vale, Jim ⁱ   Jeanneret, Philippe ^c   Sarthou, Jean Pierre ^d   Friedel, Jürgen K ^e   Balázs, Katalin ^f   Fjellstad, Wendy ^g   Kainz, Max ^h   Wolfrum, Sebastian ^h   Dennis, Peter ⁱ  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Institute for Computational Science   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^f SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity damage potential; Conventional farming; General habitat categories; LCA; Organic agriculture; Potentially disappeared fraction of species

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHARACTERIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; FARMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONVENTIONAL FARMING; DAMAGE POTENTIAL; GENERAL HABITAT CATEGORIES; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; POTENTIALLY DISAPPEARED FRACTION OF SPECIES;

LIFE CYCLE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; FARMING SYSTEM; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MIXED FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; FARMING SYSTEM; FOREST; LAND BIOME; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EUROPE;

LILIOPSIDA;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FARMS; FORESTS;

EID: 85008219654     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.172     Document Type: Article

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