Environmental and Socioeconomic Indicators for Bioenergy Sustainability as Applied to Eucalyptus

Table 1

Area of cropland, cropland pasture, and permanent pasture (1) in the USA lower forty-eight states, (2) in Eucalyptus ranges in the Southeast, (3) potentially converted to Eucalyptus in a Base Case Scenario, and (4) potentially converted to Eucalyptus in a High-yield Scenario.

	Cropland	Cropland Pasture	Permanent Pasture
	(million hectares)
(1) USA (lower 48 states) total^a	125.82	13.15	155.59
(2) Total in Eucalyptus range^b	2.17	1.07	5.83
(3) Converted from (2) to SRWC, Base Case^c	0.25	0.29	1.20
(3) Converted from (2) to SRWC, High-yield^d	0.27	0.28	1.08

^aCensus of Agriculture, 2007.
^bIncludes counties with centroids contained by both low- and moderate-risk Eucalyptus ranges from Kline and Coleman [3] shown in Figure 1.
^cAreas in (2) above that are converted to SRWC in the Billion-Ton Update (DOE 2011) [2], assuming $66 dry Mg⁻¹ farmgate price, Base Case Scenario.
^dAreas in (2) above that are converted to SRWC in the Billion-Ton Update (DOE 2011) [2], assuming $66 dry Mg⁻¹ farmgate price, High-Yield Scenario.