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Eco-environmental Impact of Bioenergy Production

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  • 1 Center for the Environment, Purdue University, 266 Mann Hall, 203 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, U.S.A.;
    2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 225 S. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, U.S.A.

Received date: 2010-05-18

  Revised date: 2010-06-07

  Online published: 2010-06-30

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John W.Bickham, Mark A.Thomas . Eco-environmental Impact of Bioenergy Production[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2010 , 1(2) : 110 -116 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-764x.2010.02.002

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