Greenhouse gas emissions from four bioenergy crops in England and Wales: integrating spatial estimates of yield and soil carbon balance in life cycle analyses

J Hillier, C Whittaker, G Dailey, M Aylott… - Gcb …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimation of the greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential of bioenergy crops
requires the integration of a significant component of spatially varying information. In …

Land cover change effects on soil chemical and biological properties after planting Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) in sandy lands in Keerqin …

DH Zeng, YL Hu, SX Chang, ZP Fan - Plant and soil, 2009 - Springer
We compared soil moisture content, pH, total organic carbon (C org), total nitrogen (TN),
total phosphorus (TP) and inorganic N (NH 4+–N, NO 3−–N) concentrations, soil potential C …

Influence of land use change on urban heat island derived from multi‐sensor data

Y Hu, G Jia - International Journal of Climatology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate change was demonstrated to be likely influenced by anthropogenic
dominated land surface processes. Urban heat island (UHI) is one of the important …

Land use change effects on ecosystem carbon balance: from agricultural to hybrid poplar plantation

CBM Arevalo, JS Bhatti, SX Chang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2011 - Elsevier
Quantifying the carbon (C) balance of short-rotation woody crops is necessary for validating
the C sequestration potential of these systems. We studied the changes in net ecosystem …

Effects of land uses on soil physic-chemical properties and erodibility in collapsing-gully alluvial fan of Anxi County, China

Y DENG, XIA Dong, C CAI, S DING - Journal of integrative agriculture, 2016 - Elsevier
As a special kind of soil erosion that severely deteriorates the qualities of soil in granite
regions, collapsing gully is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical areas of South …

The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones

J Pan, Y Liu, N He, C Li, M Li, L Xu, OJ Sun - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
As one of the most important drivers of global climate change, land use change (LUC) has
markedly altered the regional and global carbon (C) cycles. However, the geographic …

An approach for siting poplar energy production systems to increase productivity and associated ecosystem services

RS Zalesny Jr, DM Donner, DR Coyle… - Forest Ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Short rotation woody crops such as Populus spp. and their hybrids (ie, poplars) are a
significant component of the total biofuels and bioenergy feedstock resource in the USA …

Land use change effects on ecosystem carbon budget in the Sichuan Basin of Southwest China: Conversion of cropland to forest ecosystem

X Wang, M Zhou, T Li, Y Ke, B Zhu - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
In the humid subtropics, conversion of cropland to forest has been recognized to influence
carbon cycling (eg, soil CO 2 emissions) and the associated ecosystem carbon balance. A …

Soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in agricultural and afforested poplar plantation systems in northern Alberta

SX Chang, Z Shi, BR Thomas - Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2016 - Springer
The effect of land use change from agricultural to short rotation woody crops on soil
respiration and its temperature sensitivity is not fully understood. We studied the effect of …

Pulp mill biosolids mitigate soil greenhouse gas emissions from applied urea and improve soil fertility in a hybrid poplar plantation

X Chen, BR Thomas, S Pattison, Z An… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pulp mill biosolids (hereafter'biosolids') could be used as an organic amendment to improve
soil fertility and promote crop growth; however, it is unclear how the application of biosolids …