Phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated sites: eco-environmental concerns, field studies, sustainability issues, and future prospects

G Saxena, D Purchase, SI Mulla, GD Saratale… - … and Toxicology Volume …, 2020 - Springer
Environmental contamination due to heavy metals (HMs) is of serious ecotoxicological
concern worldwide because of their increasing use at industries. Due to non-biodegradable …

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

C Palm, H Blanco-Canqui, F DeClerck, L Gatere… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) changes soil properties and processes compared to
conventional agriculture. These changes can, in turn, affect the delivery of ecosystem …

Plastics derived from biological sources: present and future: a technical and environmental review

GQ Chen, MK Patel - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
In the time period 2010À2015, the worldwide annual production of plastics is very likely to
surpass 300 million tons, 1, 2 requiring multiple amounts of petroleum and leading to …

A similarity measure-based Pythagorean fuzzy additive ratio assessment approach and its application to multi-criteria sustainable biomass crop selection

AR Mishra, P Rani, F Cavallaro, A Mardani - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In the modern world, the selection of an optimal sustainable biomass crop type for biofuel
production can be assumed as a multi-criteria decision-making problem due to numerous …

Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK

JP McCalmont, A Hastings, NP McNamara… - Gcb …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Planting the perennial biomass crop Miscanthus in the UK could offset 2–13 Mt oil eq. yr− 1,
contributing up to 10% of current energy use. Policymakers need assurance that upscaling …

Soil carbon sequestration and land use change associated with biofuel production: empirical evidence

Z Qin, JB Dunn, H Kwon, S Mueller… - Gcb …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic carbon (SOC) change can be a major impact of land use change (LUC)
associated with biofuel feedstock production. By collecting and analyzing data from …

The potential of C4 grasses for cellulosic biofuel production

T van der Weijde, CL Alvim Kamei, AF Torres… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
With the advent of biorefinery technologies enabling plant biomass to be processed into
biofuel, many researchers set out to study and improve candidate biomass crops. Many of …

Miscanthus: a promising biomass crop

EA Heaton, FG Dohleman, AF Miguez, JA Juvik… - Advances in botanical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Abstract The C 4 grass Miscanthus× giganteus is of increasing interest as a biomass
feedstock for renewable fuel production. This review describes what is known to date on M.× …

Carbon management in dryland agricultural systems. A review

D Plaza-Bonilla, JL Arrúe, C Cantero-Martínez… - Agronomy for …, 2015 - Springer
Dryland areas cover about 41% of the Earth's surface and sustain over 2 billion inhabitants.
Soil carbon (C) in dryland areas is of crucial importance to maintain soil quality and …

Biofuels from crop residue can reduce soil carbon and increase CO2 emissions

AJ Liska, H Yang, M Milner, S Goddard… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Removal of corn residue for biofuels can decrease soil organic carbon (SOC; refs,) and
increase CO 2 emissions because residue C in biofuels is oxidized to CO 2 at a faster rate …