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Articles | Volume 4, issue 4
Articles | Volume 4, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-267-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-267-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 4, issue 4
Original research article
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06 Dec 2018
Original research article |  | 06 Dec 2018

Assessment and quantification of marginal lands for biomass production in Europe using soil-quality indicators

Werner Gerwin, Frank Repmann, Spyridon Galatsidas, Despoina Vlachaki, Nikos Gounaris, Wibke Baumgarten, Christiane Volkmann, Dimitrios Keramitzis, Fotis Kiourtsis, and Dirk Freese

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The need for biomass for energetic or material use is increasing parallel to the need to extend the production of food for a growing world population. This results in conflicts between both land use strategies. Use of marginal lands could solve this conflict, however, the understanding of marginal lands and the knowledge of their potentials are still not fully developed. We present an approach to assess land marginality based on soil quality and an estimation of land potentials all over Europe.
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