BACKGROUND Cellulosic biofuels offer environmental benefits not available from grain-
based biofuels and are a cornerstone of efforts to meet transportation fuel needs in a future …

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 …

The potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is accumulating in the atmosphere at
unprecedented rates largely due to agricultural intensification, and cultivated soils …

Warming generally leads to increased evaporative demand, altering the amount of water
needed for growing crops. For the Midwest, some studies have suggested that reaching …

Perennial bioenergy crops have significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and contribute to climate change mitigation by substituting for fossil fuels; yet …

Carbon and water use efficiency (CUE and WUE) are crucial indicators of grassland
ecosystem responses to climate change. Grass planting is one of the dominant methods of …

Leaching losses of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) from agricultural
systems are important to water quality and carbon and nutrient balances but are rarely …

The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

Abstract 21st‐century modeling of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from bioenergy crops
is necessary to quantify the extent to which bioenergy production can mitigate climate …

Complete transformations of land cover from prairie, wetlands, and hardwood forests to row
crop agriculture and urban centers are thought to have caused profound changes in …