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Seda Sahin and Ayse Torun
This study was primarily conducted to investigate the potential use of pumpkin seed oil in biodiesel production. Initially, the fatty acid composition of oils extracted from discarded pumpkin seeds was determined. Then, biodiesel produced from discarded ...
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Nektaria Adaktylou, Dimitris Stratoulias and Rick Landenberger
Wildfires burn tens of thousands of hectares of forest, chaparral and grassland in Mediterranean countries every year, giving rise to landscape, ecologic, economic, and public safety concerns. On the Greek island of Chios and in many other Mediterranean ...
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Lei Gu, Yufeng Zhou, Tingting Mei, Guomo Zhou and Lin Xu
Bamboo forest is characterized by large carbon sequestration capability and it plays an important role in mitigating climate change and global carbon cycling. Previous studies have mostly focused on carbon cycling and carbon stocks in bamboo forest ecosy...
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James K. Gitau, Jane Mutune, Cecilia Sundberg, Ruth Mendum and Mary Njenga
A majority of people in developing countries use biomass energy for cooking and heating due to its affordability, accessibility and convenience. However, unsustainable biomass use leads to forest degradation and climate change. Therefore, this study was ...
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David L. Nicholls, Jeffrey M. Halbrook, Michelle E. Benedum, Han-Sup Han, Eini C. Lowell, Dennis R. Becker and R. James Barbour
Many socioeconomic constraints exist for biomass removals from federal lands in the western U.S. We examine several issues of importance, including biomass supply chains and harvesting costs, innovative new uses for bioenergy products, and the policy fra...
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Denys Yemshanov, Daniel W. McKenney, Emily Hope and Tony Lempriere
Burning forest biomass from renewable sources has been suggested as a viable strategy to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy generation sector. Energy facilities can, in principle, be retrofitted to produce a portion of their energy ...
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Galina Nyashina and Pavel Strizhak
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Chihiro Kayo and Ryu Noda
Throughout its life-cycle, wood contributes to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and material and energy substitution. Focusing on wood use for piles, check dams, paved walkways, guardrails, and noise barriers, we quantified the nationwide...
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Andrew W. Whelan, Seth W. Bigelow, Mary Frances Nieminen and Steven B. Jack
Seasonal timing of prescribed fire and alterations to the structure and composition of fuels in savannas and woodlands can release understory hardwoods, potentially resulting in a global increase of closed-canopy forest and a loss of biodiversity. We hyp...
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Omer Kucuk,Ertugrul Bilgili,Rifat Uzumcu
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Aim of the study: To develop regression models for estimating the rate of surface fire spread in a thinned even-aged black pine stand (Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold subsp. nigra var. caramanica (Loudon) Rehder).Area of the study: The study was carried out with...
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