Multifunctional perennial production systems for bioenergy: performance and progress

Englund, Oskar; Dimitriou, Ioannis; Dale, Virginia H.; Kline, Keith L.; Mola‐Yudego, Blas; Murphy, Fionnuala; English, Burton; McGrath, John; Busch, Gerald; Negri, Maria Cristina; Brown, Mark; Goss, Kevin; Jackson, Sam; Parish, Esther S.; Cacho, Jules; Zumpf, Colleen; Quinn, John; Mishra, Shruti K.

doi:10.1002/wene.375

Title: Multifunctional perennial production systems for bioenergy: performance and progress

Journal Article · Mon May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Energy and Environment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.375· OSTI ID:1618136

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Englund GeoLab AB Östersund Sweden, Department of Ecotechnology and Sustainable Building EngineeringMid Sweden University Östersund Sweden, Division of Physical Resource Theory, Department of Space, Earth and EnvironmentChalmers University of Technology Göteborg Sweden
Department of Crop Production EcologySwedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
Environmental Sciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
School of Forest SciencesUniversity of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland
School of Biosystems &, Food EngineeringUniversity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
Department of Agricultural &, Resource EconomicsThe University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture Knoxville Tennessee USA
McGrath Forestry Services Perth Western Australia Australia
Bureau for Applied Landscape Ecology and Scenario Analysis Goettingen Germany
Argonne National Laboratory Argonne Illinois USA
The Forest Industries Research Centre (FIRC)University of the Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia
Kevin Goss Consulting Gooseberry Hill Western Australia Australia
Genera Energy Inc. Vonore Tennessee USA

As the global population increases and becomes more affluent, biomass demands for food and biomaterials will increase. Demand growth is further accelerated by the implementation of climate policies and strategies to replace fossil resources with biomass. There are, however, concerns about the size of the prospective biomass demand and the environmental and social consequences of the corresponding resource mobilization, especially concerning impacts from the associated land-use change. Strategically integrating perennials into landscapes dominated by intensive agriculture can, for example, improve biodiversity, reduce soil erosion and nutrient emissions to water, increase soil carbon, enhance pollination, and avoid or mitigate flooding events. Such "multifunctional perennial production systems" can thus contribute to improving overall land-use sustainability, while maintaining or increasing overall biomass productivity in the landscape. Seven different cases in different world regions are here reviewed to exemplify and evaluate (a) multifunctional production systems that have been established to meet emerging bioenergy demands, and (b) efforts to identify locations where the establishment of perennial crops will be particularly beneficial. An important barrier towards wider implementation of multifunctional systems is the lack of markets, or policies, compensating producers for enhanced ecosystem services and other environmental benefits. This deficiency is particularly important since prices for fossil-based fuels are low relative to bioenergy production costs. Without such compensation, multifunctional perennial production systems will be unlikely to contribute to the development of a sustainable bioeconomy.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: International Energy Agency; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02‐06CH11357; AC05‐00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1618136

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1618138; OSTI ID: 1631234; OSTI ID: 1660955

Journal Information:: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Energy and Environment, Journal Name: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Energy and Environment; ISSN 2041-8396

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