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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,634 Views
24 Pages

25 July 2024

This open-field small-plot long-term experiment was set up between 2011 and 2021 with willow (Salix triandra × S. viminalis ‘Inger’), grown as a short rotation coppice energy crop in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. The sandy loa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,043 Views
14 Pages

Site-Effects Dominate the Plant Availability of Nutrients under Salix Species during the First Cutting Cycle

  • Piotr Koczorski,
  • Bliss Furtado,
  • Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz,
  • Michelle Breezmann,
  • Martin Weih and
  • Christel Baum

9 September 2021

Fast-growing willows (Salix spp.) provide alternative sources of renewable energy generation, but need an adequate nutrient availability in the soil for high biomass production. In general, species mixtures can be more nutrient-efficient than pure cu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,017 Views
11 Pages

10 December 2022

The main goal of this review was to provide an assessment of the potential of fast-growing tree species for the suitable transformation of agroforestry areas for biomass production in the Baltic Sea region. Our interest was to highlight the research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,317 Views
19 Pages

Lignin Use in Enhancing the Properties of Willow Pellets

  • Autumn Elniski,
  • Prajakta Dongre and
  • Biljana M. Bujanovic

12 October 2023

Shrub willow (Salix spp.) is an emerging lignocellulosic biomass utilized in fuel pellets as an energy source. However, improvements are needed to increase the efficacy of pellets in areas such as the energy content, durability, and hazardous carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,203 Views
23 Pages

Assessing the Sustainability of Miscanthus and Willow as Global Bioenergy Crops: Current and Future Climate Conditions (Part 2)

  • Mohamed Abdalla,
  • Astley Hastings,
  • Grant Campbell,
  • Jon Mccalmont,
  • Anita Shepherd and
  • Pete Smith

19 June 2025

Land-based bioenergy systems are increasingly promoted for their potential to support climate change mitigation and energy security. Building on previous productivity and efficiency analyses, this study applies the MiscanFor and SalixFor models to ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,660 Views
18 Pages

12 March 2013

Willow (Salix spp.) is currently being researched as a source of biomass energy in Canada. However, it is not certain whether afforestation with willow plantations will enhance or diminish soil C storage and nutrient availability. Trees are known to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,545 Views
25 Pages

18 December 2024

Miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus) and Willow (Salix spp.) are promising bioenergy crops due to their high biomass yields and adaptability to diverse climatic conditions. This study applies the MiscanFor/SalixFor models to assess the sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,275 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2024

This research focuses on producing particleboards from the biomass of plantation willow (Salix viminalis L.) and poplar (Populus spp.), aiming to explore their feasibility as sustainable materials for various applications. Fast-growing willow and pop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,709 Views
15 Pages

The Phenolic Compounds in the Young Shoots of Selected Willow Cultivars as a Determinant of the Plants’ Attractiveness to Cervids (Cervidae, Mammalia)

  • Maciej Budny,
  • Kazimierz Zalewski,
  • Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski,
  • Wiesław Wiczkowski,
  • Adam Okorski and
  • Robert Stryiński

2 July 2021

This study examined the phenolic acids, flavonoids, and salicylates contents in young, 3-month-old shoots (including the leaves) of willow (Salix spp.). The cultivars were selected based on experiments carried out previously in Poland on fodder and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,217 Views
23 Pages

7 April 2020

Willow (Salix spp.) trees are commonly used in short rotation coppices (SRC) to produce renewable energy. However, these plants are also known to emit high concentrations of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), which have a large influence on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,422 Views
19 Pages

Legal Framework for the Sustainable Production of Short Rotation Coppice Biomass for Bioeconomy and Bioenergy

  • Jakub Jan Zięty,
  • Ewelina Olba-Zięty,
  • Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski,
  • Michał Krzykowski and
  • Michał Krzyżaniak

14 February 2022

The production of lignocellulose biomass on dedicated plantations is an option that facilitates the implementation of sustainable development policy. The novelty of this type of research is that it involves the use of various types of methods—e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,173 Views
25 Pages

29 October 2021

In Europe, willow (Salix spp.) trees have been used commercially since the 1980s at a large scale to produce renewable energy. While reducing fossil fuel needs, growing short rotation coppices (SRCs), such as poplar or willow, may have a high impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,865 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Street Trees in Kyoto, Japan

  • Xiaoyang Tan,
  • Satoshi Hirabayashi and
  • Shozo Shibata

7 March 2021

Street trees are integral components of urban green infrastructure. The importance of benefits provided by street trees has motivated the development of various tools to quantify the value of ecosystem services. The i-Tree Eco is a widely applied met...