Assessment of the GHG Reduction Potential from Energy Crops Using a Combined LCA and Biogeochemical Process Models: A Review

Table 1

Models mostly used for GHG simulation of energy plant.

Model	Study object	Study area	Author(s)
Tier 1	Vegetation	Global	Ruesch and Gibbs 2008 [35]
	Eucalyptus regnans forests	Australian	Keith et al. 2009 [36]
SWAT	Biofuel	James River Basin of the Midwestern United States	Wu et al. 2012 [40]
PnET	Forest ecosystems	Northeastern USA	Aber et al. 2005 [41]
	Tropical rainforest ecosystems	Wet tropics of Australia and Costa Rica	Kiese et al. 2005 [42]
	Wetland	Northern America	Zhang et al. 2002 [43]
DAYCENT	Dry grassland, wet managed grassland, and wet crop land systems	Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	Parton et al. 1994 [49]
	Crops	USA	del Grosso et al. 2005 [50]
	Corn, wheat, and soybean	Worldwide	del Grosso et al. 2009 [53]
	Switchgrass	The Central Valley of California	Lee et al. 2012 [54]
RothC	Cropland	European Russia and the Ukraine	Smith et al. 2007 [59]
	Nonwaterlogged soils	Germany, England, the USA, the Czech Republic, and Australia	Coleman et al. 1997 [60]
	Miscanthus, poplar, winter wheat, and oilseed rape	England and Wales	Hillier et al. 2009 [65]
Biome-BGC	Quercus ilex L., Quercus cerris L., and Pinus pinaster Ait.	The Mediterranean area	Chiesi et al. 2007 [67]
	Beech, oak, pine, and spruce	Central-European forestry	Cienciala and Tatarinov 2006 [68]
	Forest	Central-European forestry	Schmid et al. 2006 [69]
	Forest	Sweden	Lagergren et al. 2006 [70]
Biome	Norway spruce	Austrian	Eastaugh et al. 2011 [71]
	Jatropha curcas Linnaeus	Global	Li et al. 2010 [72]