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Different Life‐form Strategies of Perennial Energy Crops and Related Nutrient Exports Require a Differentiating View Specifically Concerning a Sustainable Cultivation on Marginal Land by Thorsten Ruf; Christoph Emmerling is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Different Life‐form Strategies of Perennial Energy Crops and Related Nutrient Exports Require a Differentiating View Specifically Concerning a Sustainable Cultivation on Marginal Land about?
## Abstract Perennial energy crops (PECs) are increasingly used as feedstock to produce energy in an environmental friendly way. Compared to traditional conversion strategies like thermal use, sophisticated technologies such as biomethanation defined different requirements of the feedstock. Whereas the first concept relies on dry, woody material, biomethanation requires a moist feedstock. Thus, over time, the spectrum of species used as PECs has widened. Moreover, harvest dates were adjusted to provide the feedstock at suitable moisture contents. It is well known that perennial, lignocellulose‐based energy crops, compared to annual, sugar‐ and starch‐based ones, offer ecological advantages such as, inter alia, improving biodiversity in landscape, protecting soil against erosion, and protecting groundwater from nutrient inputs. However, one of the main arguments for PEC cultivation was their undemanding nature concerning external inputs. With respect to the broader spectrum of PEC species and changed harvest dates, the question arises whether the concept of PECs being low‐input energy crops is still valid. This also implies the question of suitable growing conditions and sustainable
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
- Author
- Thorsten Ruf; Christoph Emmerling
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Physical Sciences)