Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference

Abstract

The goal of this conference was to initiate and provide opportunities for an international forum on the science and application of producing both agricultural and forest crops for biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts. There is a substantial global need for development of such systems and technologies that can economically and sustainably produce short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Topic areas were biological and environmental; and economic and policy implications of sustainable biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts. Presentations addressed anatomy, breeding, genetics, physiology, ecosystem services, phytotechnologies, and production systems, as well as conversion technologies, costs and operational feasibility, environmental impacts and review, social factors, policy issues, and regional logistics. Seventy-four abstracts from oral and poster presentations are included in these proceedings. CD-ROM.

Titles contained within Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference

• Development of a willow biomass crop harvester based on a new holland forage harvester and specially designed willow cutting head
• 25x'25: America's energy future
• Pulling it all together--planning guidelines and design tools for creating multi-purpose landscapes to support energy objectives
• Woody biomass crops in the midwestern United States: past, present, and future
• Water perspectives on large scale bioenergy
• Agroforest management systems can produce biofuel feedstocks and improve key environmental services on retired agricultural lands in the Western Gulf Region
• Biofuels are pest food, too!
• Economics of willow biomass production and policy to enhance market penetration
• Coppice culture for biomass production in southeastern United States
• Swedish experiences with applications of municipal and industrial residues on large-scale short-rotation coppice plantations
• Hybrid aspen growth response to shearing in Minnesota: implications for biomass production and carbon sequestration
• Agroforestry and cellulosic ethanol from sustainable poplar tree farms
• Intensive utilization of harvest residues in southern pine plantations: quantities available and implications for nutrient budgets and sustainable site productivity
• Life-cycle analysis of small-scale energy systems utilizing oilseeds grown in the midwest
• Use of marginal land and water to maximize biofuel production
• Sustainable bioenergy production in agroforestry systems
• Short-rotation forestry in Germany: lessons from the past, present research activities, and future perspectives
• Woody bioenergy systems in the United States
• The council for sustainable biomass production
• Effect of landscape positions and their associated soil and terrain attributes on biomass crop yield and growth rates
• Bioenergy: agricultural crop residues
• Competition-induced growth increases in poplar
• Evaluating willow and hybrid poplar clones for biomass volumes
• Assessing hybrid poplar biomass feedstock quality using near infrared spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis
• Rye in a cellulosic corn system
• Conservation management strategies in ethanol crop production: a Brazil-U.S. comparison
• Effects of a winter rye double crop after corn silage on biomass production, water quality, and soil nutrient status
• Important developments for short-rotation intensive culture of willow in different regions of eastern Canada
• Environmental services from agroforest systems: sustainable biofuel feedstock production in the Gulf south region of the United States
• Using a systems approach to improve bioenergy sustainability assessment
• Productivity and energy content of native perennial grassland species
• Purpose-grown trees as a sustainable renewable energy source
• R&D and adoption issues for four short-rotation afforestation/agroforestry technologies: results of focus groups conducted in Quebec and the Canadian Prairies
• A Minnesota-based Populus breeding and hybrid poplar development program
• Ecological services payments enhance the economies of sustainably-grown feedstocks
• Growth and yield of poplar and willow hybrids in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Response of three salix varieties to irrigation with different concentrations of solvay storm water
• Biomass production from native warm-season grass monocultures and polycultures managed for bioenergy
• Herbaceous biomass: state of the art
• Use of selected hybrid poplars in short-rotation woody crops production: the European experience from the field to the final transformer
• Prolonged planting season in willow short-rotation forestry: effects on initial plant growth and plant survival
• Strategic assessment of biofuels potential for the western U.S.
• Impact of growth environment variability on alfalfa yield, cellulosic ethanol traits, and paper pulp characteristics
• Characterization of arsenic uptake under phosphorus sufficient and deficient conditions in shrub willow (salix spp.) clones of differing as sensitivities
• Impacts of paper sludge, manure, and fertilizer application on soil properties and biomass production in a short rotation willow cropping system in central New York
• High throughput analysis methods for short-rotation crops
• Sugar/energy canes as feedstocks for the biofuels industry
• Production of biomass for energy from sustainable forestry systems: Canada and Europe
• Pacific northwest poplars: a resilient arthropod community and the distribution of insect-caused mortality in cuttings
• Impacts of biofuel production on grassland birds in Wisconsin
• Challenges associated with short-rotation biofuel plantation establishment in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley
• A national assessment of current and future state of technology for woody crops in meeting mandated biofuel requirements
• Wood-to-wheels: a multidisciplinary research initiative in sustainable transportation utilizing fuels and co-products from forest resources
• Genetics of yield and biomass composition of shrub willow bioenergy crops bred and selected in North America
• Socially responsible expansion of Brazilian ethanol
• Genetic improvement of hybrid poplar for the renewable fuels industry: a Pacific Northwest perspective
• Irrigation effects in a cottonwood plantation in the lower Mississippi River alluvial valley
• Ecological aspects of cellulosic biomass supply from whole-tree chipping and slash removal
• Canopy structure, light interception, and light-use efficiency in willow
• Building a cellulosic biofuels industry from the ground up: Tennessee biofuels initiative
• Poplar and willow short rotation intensive culture (SRIC) crops in western Canada
• Wood bioenergy systems in Canada
• Regional site-selection models for hybrid poplars
• Development of switchgrass into a biomass energy crop
• Illinois studies of Miscanthus x giganteus for biomass feedstock production
• Commercializing willow biomass crops for bioenergy and bioproducts in the northeastern and midwestern United States
• Evaluating effluent and canal water irrigation for wood biomass production and phytotechnology
• A comparative cost analysis of logistics for herbaceous energy crops and short-rotation woody crops
• Multiple criteria deciding on phytoremediation of a heavy metal contaminated agricultural area case: The Campine, Belgium
• Populus root system morphology during phytoremediation of landfill leachate
• Potential chloride and sodium uptake for 2- to 11-year-old populus irrigated with landfill leachate in the north central United States
• Biomass potential of populus in the midwestern United States
• Variation in lateral and basal adventitious rooting of populus irrigated with landfill leachate: selection of favorable genotypes for environmental benefits
• Evaluation of the potential of hybrid willow as a sustainable biomass energy alternative crop in northern and west-central Minnesota

Citation

Zalesny, Ronald S., Jr.; Mitchell, Rob; Richardson, Jim, eds. 2008. Biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts from sustainable agricultural and forest crops: proceedings of the short rotation crops international conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 76 p.