A biomass future for the North American Great Plains: toward sustainable land use and mitigation of greenhouse warming
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Dedication v
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1
1. IMAGES OF THE PLAINS 1
2. GRASSLANDS 2
3. DISCOVERING THE PLAINS 2
3.1. Pre-European 2
3.2. Early explorations 3
3.3. Settlement 3
4. THE DUST BOWL YEARS 5
5. POST DUST BOWL TRENDS 7
6. THE CHAPTERS 8
REFERENCES 9
CHAPTER 2. THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 11
1. GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES 11
2. CLIMATE 12
2.1. Air masses, fronts and precipitation 14
2.2. Evaporation—a critical facet of the Great Plains climate 15
2.3. Climatic hazards and adaptations on the Plains 16
2.3.1. Extreme temperatures 16
2.3.2. Short growing seasons 17
2.3.3. Recurrent drought 17
2.3.4. Strong and persistent wind 19
2.3.5. Other hazards 22
2.4. Advantages of the Great Plains climate 23
2.5. Overview 23
3. SOILS 24
4. WATER RESOURCES 27
4.1. Introduction 27
4.2. The river basins 29
4.3. Groundwater 29
4.4. Climate sensitivity of the Great Plains MWRRs 32
5. NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS AND VEGETATION 33
6. LAND USE 36
7. ANALOGOUS REGIONS 38
8. SUMMARY 39
REFERENCES 40
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CHAPTER 3. PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY 41
1. DEMOGRAPHICS 41
1.1. Introduction 41
1.2. Population 41
1.2.1. Total, rural, and non-rural 41
1.2.2. Age distribution 44
1.2.3. Ethnicity 44
1.2.4. Age of principal farm operators 46
1.2.5. Population density 46
2. THE GREAT PLAINS ECONOMY 48
2.1. Great Plains and national gross domestic product 48
2.2. Personal income 50
2.3. The farm economy and governmental payments 51
3. SUMMARY 53
REFERENCES 54
CHAPTER 4. AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY 55
1. INTRODUCTION 55
2. THE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE 55
2.1. Crop production 55
2.2. Irrigation 60
2.3. Animal production 61
2.4. Government payments to agriculture 63
3. THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE 63
3.1. Introduction 63
3.2. Recipes for sustainable land use on the Plains 64
4. SOIL EROSION ON THE PLAINS—CAUSES AND
COUNTERMEASURES 67
5. WATER PROBLEMS AND COUNTERMEASURES 70
5.1. Water withdrawals for irrigation 70
5.2. Improvements in irrigation efficiency 73
6. SUSTAINABILITY ON BALANCE 79
REFERENCES 79
CHAPTER 5. THE WILDCARD OF CLIMATE CHANGE 81
1. INTRODUCTION 81
2. THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT AND GLOBAL WARMING 83
2.1. The energy balance 83
2.2. The greenhouse gasses 84
2.3. The CO,-fertilization effect 86
3. CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS 86
3.1. Climate analogues 87
3.2. Statistical regression 87
Table of Co tents ix
3.3. General circulation models 87
3.3.1. The US National Assessment 89
3.3.2. GCMs in the JGCRI study 89
4. IMPACTS OF PROJECTED CLIMATE CHANGES ON
PLAINS AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES 92
4.1. Introduction 92
4.2. Results of the National Assessment 92
4.3. Results of the JGCRI Assessment 93
4.3.1. Agricultural production 93
4.3.2. Water resources 96
4.3.3. Implications for irrigation 98
5. SUMMARY: POSSIBLE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE
CHANGE ON GREAT PLAINS AGRICULTURE 98
REFERENCES 100
CHAPTER 6. A ROLE FOR THE PLAINS IN COMBATING
CLIMATE CHANGE 103
1. INTRODUCTION 103
2. TECHNOLOGICAL FIXES 106
2.1. Background 106
2.2. Closing the gap between likely and desirable
emissions and CO, concentrations 108
3. SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION 110
3.1. Background 110
3.2. Experimental evidence of soil carbon sequestration 112
3.3. Soil carbon dynamics 114
3.4. Model simulations 115
3.5. The potential for soil carbon sequestration on the NAGP 116
3.6. Soil carbon: a summary 119
4. BIOMASS CROPS 120
4.1. Background 120
4.2. Current and future contributions of biomass
to US energy supply 120
4.3. The Great Plains contribution 122
4.3.1. Forests as a source of biomass 122
4.3.2. Agricultural sources of biomass 123
4.4. Biomass crops for the Plains 125
4.4.1. More on the woody species 125
4.4.2. Switchgrass 126
4.4.3. Grasses for the western Plains 128
4.4.3.1. Switchgrass out West 128
4.4.3.2. Other grasses for the western Plains 130
4.5. Biomass crops under changing climate 131
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5. HOW GENETIC ENGINEERING MIGHT HELP 132
5.1. Background 132
5.2. What is biotechnology? 135
5.2.1. How are genes actually transferred? 136
5.2.2. Traits introduced into agricultural crops 137
5.2.2.1. Herbicide tolerance 137
5.2.2.2. Insect resistance 137
5.2.2.3. Disease resistance 138
5.2.2.4. Nutrition and pharmaceutical properties 138
5.3. Adoption of genetically engineered crops 138
5.4. Environmental risks of genetically engineered crops 139
5.5. Environmental benefits of genetically engineered crops 141
5.6. Genetic engineering of biomass crops 141
6. PROCESSING BIOMASS CROPS 143
6.1. Introduction 143
6.2. Specific uses of biomass 143
6.2.1. Generating electricity 143
6.2.2. Biodiesel 144
6.2.3. Ethanol from grain 144
6.2.4. Ethanol and other products from cellulosic materials 145
6.3. Bioconversion and biorefineries 146
6.4. Reliable supply streams 147
6.5. More environmental considerations 148
6.6. Energetics 148
6.7. Market penetration issues 150
6.7.1. Prerequisites for penetration 150
6.7.2. Supply 150
6.7.3. Price of biofuels 152
6.7.4. Carbon taxes and trading systems 153
6.8. Capture and sequestration of biomass carbon 155
6.9. Outlook 158
REFERENCES 159
CHAPTER 7. OUTLOOK 163
1. RECAPITULATION 163
2. BIOMASS AND THE GREAT PLAINS 166
3. IS THERE A BIOMASS FUTURE? 167
4. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS 170
INDEX 173
COLOR PLATES 181
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