Evaluating the Potential of Marginal Land for Cellulosic Feedstock Production and Carbon Sequestration in the United States
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Land availability for growing feedstocks at scale is a crucial concern for the bioenergy industry. Feedstock production on land not well-suited to growing conventional crops, or marginal land, is often promoted as ideal, although there is a poor understanding of the qualities, quantity, and distribution of marginal lands in the United States. We examine the spatial distribution of land complying with several key marginal land definitions at the United States county, agro-ecological zone, and national scales, and compare the ability of both marginal land and land cover data sets to identify regions for feedstock production. We conclude that very few land parcels comply with multiple definitions of marginal land. Furthermore, to examine possible carbon-flow implications of feedstock production on land that could be considered marginal per multiple definitions, we model soil carbon changes upon transitions from marginal cropland, grassland, and cropland-pastureland to switchgrass production for three marginal land-rich counties. Our findings suggest that total soil organic carbon changes per county are small, and generally positive, and can influence life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of switchgrass ethanol.
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- Authors
- Emery, I., Mueller, S., Qin, Z., & Dunn, J. B.
- Affiliations
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dunn, Jennifer B.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2016-12-15
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 733-741
- ISSN
- 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5851
- OpenAlex
- W2558274305
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 8.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.osti.gov
- Locations
- Environmental Science & Technology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-AC02-06CH11357)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Keywords
- marginal land, carbon sequestration, switchgrass, soil organic carbon, land availability, land cover data, agro-ecological zones, life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, biomass feedstock
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Carbon, Soil, United States, Crops, Agricultural, Carbon Sequestration
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