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Technical Comments on “Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from BioelectricityThan Ethanol”
Campbell et al. [Report in Science 2009 (May 22), 324, 1055] analyzed two scenarios where bioenergy crops were used for transportation – (1) cellulosic ethanol production by biorefineries for inte…
Received 06 September 2009 15:04 UTC; Posted 07 September 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Earth & Environment
Enhancing Jatropha Productivity by Canopy Management
Jatropha seed and oil yield is function of planting material used, growing conditions, plant architecture development and maintenance. Jatropha is hardy plant; thrives well in arid and semi arid re…
Received 30 August 2009 09:10 UTC; Posted 01 September 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Biostratigraphy and assigning the paleosalinity by using Echinocorys and Planktonic foraminifera at Upper Maastrichtian, in Jorband section, Central Alborz, Iran
Jorband section is located in the north slope of central Alborz, and 28 Km south of Noor. It has been sampled and index fossilic groups of planktonic foraminifera and echinoids were studied in orde…
Received 30 August 2009 07:44 UTC; Posted 02 September 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Jellyfish as vectors of bacterial disease for farmed fish.
Gill diseases are common, especially in intensively reared fish; they result in respiratory distress, as well as impaired osmoregulation and excretion (1). Bacteria and parasites are common causes …
Received 17 August 2009 14:03 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Earth & Environment
Urban Ecosystems: Alterations to Peakflow, Microclimate and the Natural Environment
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urbanized ecosystems. Continued human population growth over the next several decades will place unprecedented demand on urban water resources,...
Received 14 August 2009 01:39 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Proposing a life cycle land use impact calculation methodology
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) community is yet to come to a consensus on a methodology to incorporate land use in LCA, still struggling with what exactly should be assessed and which indicators s…
Received 10 August 2009 10:00 UTC; Posted 12 August 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Survey of the diagenesis process and effect these process on reservoir quality of the Kangan formation in South Pars Field
Kangan and Upper Dalan formations are forming reservoir sequence of the South Pars field. Litology of the kangan formation is carbonate and (limestone and dolomite with anhydrite intervals), so dig…
Received 01 August 2009 10:28 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Effective denitrification scales predictably with water residence time across diverse systems
Nitrogen provides a fundamental building block for life. However, some nitrogen species (e.g., NO3) cause water quality degradation and contribute to climatic warming as a greenhouse gas (e.g., N…
Received 30 July 2009 14:28 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Use of inadequate data and methodological errors lead to a dramatic overestimation of the water footprint of Jatropha curcas
In their recent article, Gerbens-Leenes et al. (1) calculated the water footprint (WF, the amount of water required to produce 1 GJ of energy) of several bioenergy crops. One of the most remarkable…
Received 08 July 2009 10:20 UTC; Posted 08 July 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Tap Water vs. Bottled Water in a Footprint Integrated Approach
A Footprint Integrated approach was used to assess and compare the impact on the environment and on the resources of tap water (TW) and pet-bottled natural mineral water (BW). A set of BW from six …
Received 07 July 2009 11:53 UTC; Posted 07 July 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
