Carbon implications of converting cropland to bioenergy crops or forest for climate mitigation: a global assessment

Generating global crop distribution maps: From census to grid

(2014) Liangzhi You et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Will energy crop yields meet expectations?

(2014) Stephanie Y. Searle et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Permanence of agricultural afforestation for carbon sequestration under stylized carbon markets in the U.S.

(2014) David Haim et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Global bioenergy resources

(2014) Raphael Slade et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

(2013) Yude Pan et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Global simulation of bioenergy crop productivity: analytical framework and case study for switchgrass

(2013) Shujiang Kang et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

How much land-based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals?

(2013) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Cropland Conversion in Response to the “Grain for Green Project” in China’s Loess Hilly Region of Yanchuan County

(2013) Jieyong Wang et al.   Remote Sensing

Food-Carbon Trade-offs between Agriculture and Reforestation Land Uses under Alternate Market-based Policies

(2012) Stacey Paterson et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production

(2012) Stephen R. Mitchell et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral

(2012) Ernst-Detlef Schulze et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision

(2012) Pete Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

REVIEW: The role of ecosystems and their management in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality

(2012) Pete Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Harmonising bioenergy resource potentials—Methodological lessons from review of state of the art bioenergy potential assessments

(2012) B. Batidzirai et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Delivering food security without increasing pressure on land

(2012) Pete Smith   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Carbon Payments and Low-Cost Conservation

(2011) NEVILLE D. CROSSMAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Effects of boreal forest management practices on the climate impact of CO2 emissions from bioenergy

(2011) Francesco Cherubini et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Is woody bioenergy carbon neutral? A comparative assessment of emissions from consumption of woody bioenergy and fossil fuel

(2011) Giuliana Zanchi et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Bioenergy production potential of global biomass plantations under environmental and agricultural constraints

(2011) TIM BERINGER et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

A Novel Framework to Classify Marginal Land for Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Production

(2011) Gayathri Gopalakrishnan et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Global warming potential factors and warming payback time as climate indicators of forest biomass use

(2011) Kim Pingoud et al.   Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

MIRCA2000-Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high-resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

(2010) Felix T. Portmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Competition for land

(2010) P. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

(2010) P. C. West et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future bio-energy potential under various natural constraints

(2009) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Energy vs. material: Economic impacts of a “wood-for-energy scenario” on the forest-based sector in Austria — A simulation approach

(2009) Peter Schwarzbauer et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests

(2009) Heather Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error

(2009) T. D. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE

Exploration of regional and global cost–supply curves of biomass energy from short-rotation crops at abandoned cropland and rest land under four IPCC SRES land-use scenarios

(2008) Monique Hoogwijk et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

The Global Potential of Bioenergy on Abandoned Agriculture Lands

(2008) J. Elliott Campbell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

(2008) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   NATURE

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

(2008) J. Fargione et al.   SCIENCE

Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource

(2008) C FIELD et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Permanence discounting for land-based carbon sequestration

(2007) Man-Keun Kim et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints

(2007) Fridolin Krausmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

(2007) P. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES