Poster's note : relevant to BECCS http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464515000391
Environmental Development Available online 19 May 2015, doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2015.05.003 In Press Biofuels and biodiversity: Challenges and opportunities Luciano M. Verdade Carlos I. Piña Luís Miguel Rosalino Highlights • Biodiversity impacts of biofuels crops expansion is generally related with usual agricultural impacts (i.e., land use change and agriculture intensification). • As agricultural landscapes are becoming more and more multifunctional, biofuels crops dominated landscapes might become good models for a sustainable agricultural development Abstract The use of biofuels can result on a decrease of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions when compared to fossil fuels. However, the expansion of biofuels crops has been either based on direct or indirect displacement of natural ecosystems or on the use of degraded or marginal lands. The former results in direct habitat loss, whereas the later results in usual agricultural impacts (e.g., soil and biotic contamination and water eutrophication). However, in some circumstances biofuels crops can result on an increase in biodiversity compared to other agricultural crops. Agricultural zoning can mitigate the impacts of land use change (LUC), either direct (dLUC) or indirect (iLUC), whereas the use of wildlife-friendly techniques can mitigate the impacts of agriculture intensification. However, in both cases long-term biodiversity monitoring programs should be established in order to help the decision making process concerning the conflict between the expansion of biofuels crops and the conservation of biodiversity. Keywords Agricultural landscapesLand use change (LUC)Agriculture intensificationBioenergyAgriculture zoningWildlife-friendly agricultural techniques -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
