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  • Open Access
3 Citations
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Design and Characteristics of a Hybrid Wood-Soil System Made from Casuarina glauca Wood

  • Hassan Allam,
  • Khaled Yosry,
  • Mohamed Adham,
  • Mohamed Darwish and
  • Khaled Nassar

15 February 2023

Wood has been used in construction has for several millennia; however, global warming has created situations in which the wood needs to be utilized in a more eco-friendly, sustainable, and cost-effective manner. Using wood from trees farmed on wastew...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,055 Views
21 Pages

Design and Characteristics of a Single-Storey Hybrid Wood–Soil Structure

  • Mohamed Darwish,
  • Mohamed Adham,
  • Hassan Allam,
  • Khaled Yousri and
  • Tamer Hassan

The need to reduce the effects of climate change has been increasing. One of the pathways to answer such a need is green construction. Hybrid wood–soil (HWS) structures are eco-friendly in addition to being cost-effective. Within this study, a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,783 Views
20 Pages

Soil-to-Atmosphere GHG Fluxes in Hemiboreal Deciduous Tree and Willow Coppice Based Agroforestry Systems with Mineral Soil

  • Andis Bārdulis,
  • Dana Purviņa,
  • Kristaps Makovskis,
  • Arta Bārdule and
  • Dagnija Lazdiņa

21 March 2023

In this study, we estimated the magnitude of soil-to-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes in deciduous tree and willow coppice based agroforestry systems in hemiboreal Latvia. We studied systems combining hyb...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,133 Views
23 Pages

14 May 2015

The importance of wood and wood byproducts as biomass feedstocks is of increasing interest as a source of ethanol and electricity. Second generation woody feedstock sources in Michigan, e.g., hybrid poplar and hybrid willow (Populus spp.), and native...

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  • Open Access
2,523 Views
13 Pages

Growing Poplar in Acid Soils: Biomass Yield and Ash Behavior

  • Cristina Eimil-Fraga,
  • Nerea Oliveira,
  • Luis Ortíz-Torres,
  • Juan Luis Rodríguez-Somoza and
  • Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro

20 July 2021

Atlantic areas of southern Europe have low water restrictions but are also characterized by acid soils with low intrinsic fertility, so the selection of clones that have adapted to these characteristics is essential. In this study, biomass yield data...