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National level POLYSYS data for Hellwinckel et al. (2015): Simulated impact of the renewable fuels standard on US Conservation Reserve Program enrollment and conversion

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2014-08-18
This is the data of national level land conversions, prices, assumptions, etc., in the POLYSYS runs to estimate the land use change impacts from a growing biofuels industry. The results are discussed in Detail in Hellwinckel et al. (2015): "Simulated impact of the renewable fuels standard on US Conservation Reserve Program enrollment and conversion." Global Change Biology - Bioenergy (2015), doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12281. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Hellwinckel, C., C. Clark , M. Langholtz, L. Eaton, and P. Morefield. Impact of the Renewable Fuels Standard on U.S. Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment and Conversion. GCB Bioenergy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, 8(1): 245-256, (2016).

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