Environmental sustainability of biofuels: a review

HK Jeswani, A Chilvers… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biofuels are being promoted as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels as they could help to
reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the related climate change impact from …

[HTML][HTML] Land use for bioenergy: Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals

I Vera, B Wicke, P Lamers, A Cowie, A Repo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioenergy aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contribute to meeting
global climate change mitigation targets. Nevertheless, several sustainability concerns are …

[HTML][HTML] The climate change mitigation potential of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

SV Hanssen, V Daioglou, ZJN Steinmann… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) can act as a negative emission
technology and is considered crucial in many climate change mitigation pathways that limit …

Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops

A Ledo, P Smith, A Zerihun, J Whitaker… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluates the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) under perennial crops
across the globe. It quantifies the effect of change from annual to perennial crops and the …

Nutrient and moisture limitations reveal keystone metabolites linking rhizosphere metabolomes and microbiomes

NR Baker, K Zhalnina, M Yuan, D Herman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Plants release a wealth of metabolites into the rhizosphere that can shape the composition
and activity of microbial communities in response to environmental stress. The connection …

Beneficial management of biomass combustion ashes

J Zhai, IT Burke, DI Stewart - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Use of biomass for energy production is increasing, so management of the resultant ash is
important. This review compares current and future production, chemical composition, and …

Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production

M Khanna, L Chen, B Basso, X Cai, JL Field… - Gcb …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks
while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural land from food crop production …

Bioenergy for climate change mitigation: Scale and sustainability

K Calvin, A Cowie, G Berndes, A Arneth… - GCB …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many global climate change mitigation pathways presented in IPCC assessment reports rely
heavily on the deployment of bioenergy, often used in conjunction with carbon capture and …

Prospects of bioenergy cropping systems for a more social-ecologically sound bioeconomy

M Von Cossel, M Wagner, J Lask, E Magenau… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
The growing bioeconomy will require a greater supply of biomass in the future for both
bioenergy and bio-based products. Today, many bioenergy cropping systems (BCS) are …

Soils' dirty little secret: Depth‐based comparisons can be inadequate for quantifying changes in soil organic carbon and other mineral soil properties

AC von Haden, WH Yang… - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and other soil properties is
essential for understanding how soils will respond to land management practices and global …