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SUBMITTER: Werling BP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3910622 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Werling Ben P BP Dickson Timothy L TL Isaacs Rufus R Gaines Hannah H Gratton Claudio C Gross Katherine L KL Liere Heidi H Malmstrom Carolyn M CM Meehan Timothy D TD Ruan Leilei L Robertson Bruce A BA Robertson G Philip GP Schmidt Thomas M TM Schrotenboer Abbie C AC Teal Tracy K TK Wilson Julianna K JK Landis Douglas A DA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140113 4
Agriculture is being challenged to provide food, and increasingly fuel, for an expanding global population. Producing bioenergy crops on marginal lands--farmland suboptimal for food crops--could help meet energy goals while minimizing competition with food production. However, the ecological costs and benefits of growing bioenergy feedstocks--primarily annual grain crops--on marginal lands have been questioned. Here we show that perennial bioenergy crops provide an alternative to annual grains t ...[more]