Claim · model-written summary
Projected poplar yield reached 18 Mg per hectare per year in eastern, southern, and northwestern regions.
- Outcome
- poplar yielde0
- Value
- 18 Mg x ha(-1) x yr(-1)e0
- Setting
- eastern, southern, and northwest regionse0
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Verbatim
e0“poplar yield varies considerably with differences in soil and climate, reaching as much as 18 Mg x ha(-1) x yr(-1) in eastern, southern, and northwest regions.”
Title
Dan Wang; David LeBauer; Michael Dietze Ecological Applications 2012. doi:10.1890/12-0854.1
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Method / resource Seven model variables accounted for more than 80% of uncertainty in modeled poplar yields.
- Method / resource Assimilation of observed yield data reduced uncertainty in model parameters and biomass estimates.
- Method / resource The ED2 model captured temporal and spatial variation in poplar yield at nine independent sites.
- Observation Simulations suggested poplar plantations became a soil-carbon sink within 18 years after conversion from corn or existing forest.
- Observation Poplar yields were predicted to exceed Miscanthus yields in New England, the upper Midwest, and northern California.
- Observation In productive regions, four-to-eleven-year poplar rotations gave the highest potential yields.