Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology

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Holly K Gibbs et al 2008 Environ. Res. Lett. 3 034001 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034001

Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology

Holly K Gibbs¹, Matt Johnston¹, Jonathan A Foley¹, Tracey Holloway¹, Chad Monfreda², Navin Ramankutty³ and David Zaks¹

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