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| Title |
Sustainable bioenergy production with little carbon debt in the Loess Plateau of China
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| Published in |
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13068-016-0586-y |
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| Authors |
Wei Liu, Cheng Peng, Zhifen Chen, Yue Liu, Juan Yan, Jianqiang Li, Tao Sang |
| Abstract |
As a key strategy for mitigating global climate change, bioenergy production by reducing CO2 emissions plays an important role in ensuring sustainable development. However, land-use change by converting natural ecosystems into energy crop field could create a carbon debt at the beginning. Thus, the potential carbon debt calculation is necessary for determining a promising bioenergy crop production, especially in the region rich of marginal land. Here, we used high-resolution historical land-use data to identify the marginal land available and to evaluate the carbon debt of planting Miscanthus in the Loess Plateau, China. We found that there were 27.6 Mha for energy production and 9.7 Mha for ecological restoration, with total annual production of 0.41 billion tons of biomass. We also found that soil carbon sequestration and total CO2 mitigation were 9.3 Mt C year(-1) and 542 Mt year(-1), respectively. More importantly, the result showed that planting Miscanthus on marginal land in the Loess Plateau only took 0.97 years on average to repay the carbon debt. Our study demonstrated that Miscanthus production in suitable marginal land in the Loess Plateau can offer considerable renewable energy and mitigate climate change with little carbon debt. These results suggested that bioenergy production in the similar arid and semiarid region worldwide would contribute to carbon sequestration in the context of rapid climate change. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 32% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 12% |
| Researcher | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 5 | 20% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 8% |
| Energy | 2 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 16% |
| Unknown | 9 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2019.
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#8,882,501
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#615
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#142,041
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#14
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