The ecology of algal biodiesel production
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Sustainable energy production represents one of the most formidable problems of the 21st century, and plant-based biofuels offer significant promise. We summarize the potential advantages of using pond-grown microalgae as feedstocks relative to conventional terrestrial biofuel crop production. We show how pond-based algal biofuel production, which requires significantly less land area than agricultural crop-based biofuel systems, can offer additional ecological benefits by reducing anthropogenic pollutant releases to the environment and by requiring much lower water subsidies. We also demonstrate how key principles drawn from the science of ecology can be used to design efficient pond-based microalgal systems for the production of biodiesel fuels.
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More than two times the globally available area of arable land would be needed to meet global market demand for biodiesel when produced from rapeseed oil.
“It is estimated that more than two times the globally available area of arable land would needed to meet the global market demand for biodiesel when produced from rapeseed oil [39].”
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- Authors
- Smith, V. H., Sturm, B. S. M., deNoyelles, F. J., & Billings, S. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Kansas (US)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, Val H.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 301-309
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2036117151
- Cited by
- 277
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 5.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Algal biology and biofuel production
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Keywords
- algal biodiesel, microalgae, pond aquaculture, biofuel feedstock, land use efficiency, water subsidies, pollutant reduction
- MeSH terms
- Conservation of Natural Resources, Environment, Industry, Biofuels, Eukaryota
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