New ESA Report on Biofuels Available Online
Implications for Land Use and Biodiversity is the first in a series of four reports on the ecological implications of biofuels, which is a product of the ESA Biofuels Conference held March 10, 2008, in Washington, DC. This report, authored by Virginia Dale, Keith Kline, John Wiens, and Joseph Fargione, discusses the benefits of analyzing biofuel-related changes in land use at the ecosystem level, addressing challenges ranging from "food versus fuel" and water usage tradeoffs to the complex relationship between land use, carbon emissions, and biodiversity in producing and assessing different biofuels. This first report is available now for download at http://www.esa.org/biofuelsreports. Stay tuned over the coming weeks for the additional reports to be posted on the website.
