期刊
FORESTS
卷 12, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f12111529
关键词
biomass production; life cycle assessment; climate impact; soil organic carbon; Salix; willow; short rotation coppice; genotypic difference
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资金
- Formas (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural sciences and Spatial Planning) [942-2016-31, 2020-02339]
- Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) [BA 1494/9-1]
- Formas [2020-02339] Funding Source: Formas
This study analyzed the influence of different Salix varieties on soil organic carbon dynamics and climate impacts, illustrating that variety significantly affects SOC sequestration potential, biomass yield, growth pattern, response to fertilization, and climate impact.
Short-rotation coppice (SRC) Salix plantations have the potential to provide fast-growing biomass feedstock with significant soil and climate mitigation benefits. Salix varieties exhibit significant variation in their physiological traits, growth patterns and soil ecology-but the effects of these variations have rarely been studied from a systems perspective. This study analyses the influence of variety on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and climate impacts from Salix cultivation for heat production for a Swedish site with specific conditions. Soil carbon modelling was combined with a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to quantify SOC sequestration and climate impacts over a 50-year period. The analysis used data from a Swedish field trial of six Salix varieties grown under fertilized and unfertilized treatments on Vertic Cambisols during 2001-2018. The Salix systems were compared with a reference case where heat is produced from natural gas and green fallow was the land use alternative. Climate impacts were determined using time-dependent LCA methodology-on a land-use (per hectare) and delivered energy unit (per MJ(heat)) basis. All Salix varieties and treatments increased SOC, but the magnitude depended on the variety. Fertilization led to lower carbon sequestration than the equivalent unfertilized case. There was no clear relationship between biomass yield and SOC increase. In comparison with reference cases, all Salix varieties had significant potential for climate change mitigation. From a land-use perspective, high yield was the most important determining factor, followed by SOC sequestration, therefore high-yielding fertilized varieties such as 'Tordis', 'Tora' and 'Bjorn' performed best. On an energy-delivered basis, SOC sequestration potential was the determining factor for the climate change mitigation effect, with unfertilized 'Jorr' and 'Loden' outperforming the other varieties. These results show that Salix variety has a strong influence on SOC sequestration potential, biomass yield, growth pattern, response to fertilization and, ultimately, climate impact.
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