A synthesis of the ecosystem services impact of second generation bioenergy crop production

Holland, Robert A.; Eigenbrod, Felix; Muggeridge, Ann; Brown, G.D.; Clarke, D.; Taylor, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.02.003

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“…Accordingly, studies looking into the impacts of bioenergy production on biodiversity and/or ecosystem services were mainly undertaken from national or global perspectives (e.g. [14,15]). A number of spatially explicit modelling studies have also emerged to evaluate the biodiversity responses from energy crop production at regional, national and pan-national scales, maize in particular [16][17][18][19], some of which considered land-use change scenarios involving energy crop cultivation on marginal land of high nature value [20,21].…”

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To integrate or to segregate food crop and energy crop cultivation at the landscape scale? Perspectives on biodiversity conservation in agriculture in Europe

Dauber

Miyake

2016

Energ Sustain Soc

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Biodiversity is severely declining in intensively managed agriculture worldwide. In response, land-management strategies for biodiversity conservation on farmland are in debate, namely ecological intensification and land sparing vs. land sharing. In parallel, there is a recent food vs. energy debate stimulated by an increasing competition for land resources. Despite clear overlaps between these two debates, they were rarely connected in previous research. This paper aims to stimulate a discussion by providing a contextual link between biodiversity conservation strategies and options for future energy crop deployment. Therefore, nine conceptual land-use scenarios are developed, and then, the potential biodiversity implications are discussed based on the findings from past and ongoing research. These scenarios include the integration and segregation of both food and energy crops on lands with a range of productivity and suitability for agricultural production. We assume that the clear segregation between food crops on productive land and energy crops on marginal land is less likely to be a solution of mitigating the problems related to the biodiversity decline, especially in the European agricultural landscape context. In contrast, the integration of food and energy crop production systems at the farm to landscape scale has greater potential for ecological intensification, although conflicts with traditional nature conservation targets may arise. We conclude that broadening the perspectives of biodiversity conservation in agriculture is crucial, and the inclusion of energy crop production into the recent debates on biodiversity conservation strategies is helpful.

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To integrate or to segregate food crop and energy crop cultivation at the landscape scale? Perspectives on biodiversity conservation in agriculture in Europe

Dauber

Miyake

2016

Energ Sustain Soc

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“…Rowe et al ., ) or indirectly (e.g. Holland et al ., ) based on studies conducted on small, temporal (single samples within a single season), spatial (localized, experimental plots) scales, whilst sustainability concerns relate to longer term, landscape‐scale expansion (Fargione, ; Dauber & Bolte, ). Furthermore, many studies assess biodiversity taxa of one type of biomass crop, without drawing comparisons with the land uses they may replace (see review by Dauber et al ., ) and use coarse levels of identification (e.g.…”

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Dedicated biomass crops can enhance biodiversity in the arable landscape

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Suggestions that novel, non‐food, dedicated biomass crops used to produce bioenergy may provide opportunities to diversify and reinstate biodiversity in intensively managed farmland have not yet been fully tested at the landscape scale. Using two of the largest, currently available landscape‐scale biodiversity data sets from arable and biomass bioenergy crops, we take a taxonomic and functional trait approach to quantify and contrast the consequences for biodiversity indicators of adopting dedicated biomass crops on land previously cultivated under annual, rotational arable cropping. The abundance and community compositions of biodiversity indicators in fields of break and cereal crops changed when planted with the dedicated biomass crops, miscanthus and short rotation coppiced (SRC) willow. Weed biomass was consistently greater in the two dedicated biomass crops than in cereals, and invertebrate abundance was similarly consistently higher than in break crops. Using canonical variates analysis, we identified distinct plant and invertebrate taxa and trait‐based communities in miscanthus and SRC willows, whereas break and cereal crops tended to form a single, composite community. Seedbanks were shown to reflect the longer term effects of crop management. Our study suggests that miscanthus and SRC willows, and the management associated with perennial cropping, would support significant amounts of biodiversity when compared with annual arable crops. We recommend the strategic planting of these perennial, dedicated biomass crops in arable farmland to increase landscape heterogeneity and enhance ecosystem function, and simultaneously work towards striking a balance between energy and food security.

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“…The use of lignocellulosic biofuels can solve and/or avoid a number of practical problems, such as energy security concerns, CO 2 emissions, and insufficient supplies of fossil fuels, as well as the moral dilemma over the competition with food production caused by first generation ethanol fuels (Damartzis and Zabaniotou, 2011;Holland et al, 2015). Inspired by a natural decay system, a (BGL, EC 3.2.1.21) are indispensable for the hydrolysis of cellulose, as their activities are synergistic (Bommarius et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2013).…”

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Isolation and characterization of a novel Penicillium oxalicum strain Z1-3 with enhanced cellobiohydrolase production using cellulase-hydrolyzed sugarcane bagasse as carbon source

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Zhao

Xue

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A synthesis of the ecosystem services impact of second generation bioenergy crop production

Cited by 97 publications

References 125 publications

To integrate or to segregate food crop and energy crop cultivation at the landscape scale? Perspectives on biodiversity conservation in agriculture in Europe

To integrate or to segregate food crop and energy crop cultivation at the landscape scale? Perspectives on biodiversity conservation in agriculture in Europe

Dedicated biomass crops can enhance biodiversity in the arable landscape

Isolation and characterization of a novel Penicillium oxalicum strain Z1-3 with enhanced cellobiohydrolase production using cellulase-hydrolyzed sugarcane bagasse as carbon source

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