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Different life-form strategies of perennial energy crops and related nutrient exports require a differentiating view specifically concerning a sustainable cultivation on marginal land

  • Perennial energy crops (PECs) are increasingly used as feedstock to produce energy in an environmental friendly way. Compared to traditional conversion strategies like thermal use, sophisticated technologies such as biomethanation defined different re-quirements of the feedstock. Whereas the first concept relies on dry, woody mate-rial, biomethanation requires a moist feedstock. Thus, over time, the spectrum of species used as PECs has widened. Moreover, harvest dates were adjusted to pro-vide the feedstock at suitable moisture contents. It is well known that perennial, lignocellulose- based energy crops, compared to annual, sugar- and starch- based ones, offer ecological advantages such as, inter alia, improving biodiversity in landscape, protecting soil against erosion, and protecting groundwater from nutrient inputs. However, one of the main arguments for PEC cultivation was their undemanding nature concerning external inputs. With respect to the broader spectrum of PEC spe-cies and changed harvest dates, the question arises whether the concept of PECs being low- input energy crops is still valid. This also implies the question of suitable grow-ing conditions and sustainable management. The aims of this opinion paper were to classify different PECs according to their life- form strategy, compare nutrient exports when harvested in different maturation stages, and to discuss the results in the context of sustainable PEC cultivation on marginal land. This study revealed that nutrient exports with yield biomass of PECs harvested in green state are in the same range than those of annual energy crops and therewith several times higher than those of PECs harvested in brown state or of woody short rotation coppices. Thus, PECs can-not universally be claimed as low- input energy crops. These results also imply the consequences of cultivation of PECs on marginal land. Finally, the question has to be raised whether the term PECs should prospectively be better specified in written and spoken words.
Metadaten
Verfasserangaben:Thorsten Ruf, Christoph Emmerling
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-17892
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12830
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):GCB Bioenergy
Verlag:Wiley
Verlagsort:Hoboken
Dokumentart:Beitrag zu einer (nichtwissenschaftlichen) Zeitung oder Zeitschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Fertigstellung:28.03.2021
Datum der Veröffentlichung:28.03.2021
Veröffentlichende Institution:Universität Trier
Beteiligte Körperschaft:The publication was funded by the Open Access Fund of Universität Trier and the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Datum der Freischaltung:23.02.2022
Freies Schlagwort / Tag:harvest dates; nutrient demands; nutrient exports; premature harvest; utilization pathways
GND-Schlagwort:Ausdauernde Pflanzen; Energiepflanzen; Ernte; Nährstoffverlust
Jahrgang:2021
Ausgabe / Heft:Band 13
Seitenzahl:12
Erste Seite:893
Letzte Seite:904
Institute:Fachbereich 6
DDC-Klassifikation:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 International

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