Evaluating ecosystem processes in willow short rotation coppice bioenergy plantations
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Evaluating ecosystem processes in willow short rotation coppice bioenergy plantations
Despite a growing body of research linking bioenergy cultivation to changing patterns of biodiversity, there has been remarkably little interest in how bioenergy plantations affect key ecosystem processes underpinning important ecosystem services. In this study, we compare how the processes of predation by ground arthropods and litter decomposition varied between Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: GCB Bioenergy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1757-1693
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12040