Evaluating the suitability of marginal land for a perennial energy crop on the Loess Plateau of China

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Evaluating the suitability of marginal land for a perennial energy crop on the Loess Plateau of China
 
Liu, Yanmei; Chen, Shaolin; von Cossel, Moritz; Xu, Bingcheng; Gao, Huanlin; Jiang, Rui; Faaij, Andre
(2021) GCB Bioenergy, volume 13, issue 9, pp. 1388 - 1406
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Abstract
With a large marginal land area, the Loess Plateau in China holds great potential for biomass production and environmental improvement. Identifying suitable locations for biomass production on marginal land is important for decision-makers from the viewpoint of land-use planning. However, there is limited information on the suitability of marginal land ... read more
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Keywords: biomass production, fuzzy-theory-based models, land suitability, Loess Plateau, marginal land, perennial crops, switchgrass, Forestry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Agronomy and Crop Science, Waste Management and Disposal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12865
ISSN: 1757-1693
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Note: Funding Information: This study was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and partially supported by the National Key Project of Intergovernmental Cooperation in International Scientific and Technological Innovation (2018YFE0112400 to SC). We would like to acknowledge the expert's knowledge from Danielle Cooney, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and John Clifton-Brown, Institution of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University. We also acknowledge the data support from the Loess Plateau Data Center, National Earth System Science Data Sharing Infrastructure, and National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China (http://loess.geodata.cn). Special thanks go to M.Sc. Eva Lewin for improving the language quality of the manuscript. Funding Information: This study was supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and partially supported by the National Key Project of Intergovernmental Cooperation in International Scientific and Technological Innovation (2018YFE0112400 to SC). We would like to acknowledge the expert's knowledge from Danielle Cooney, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and John Clifton‐Brown, Institution of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University. We also acknowledge the data support from the Loess Plateau Data Center, National Earth System Science Data Sharing Infrastructure, and National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China ( http://loess.geodata.cn ). Special thanks go to M.Sc. Eva Lewin for improving the language quality of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. GCB Bioenergy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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