Environmental benefits of cropland conversion to hybrid poplar: Economic and policy considerations

Agriculture & Biology

• hybrid poplars 100%
• cropland 92%
• ecosystem services 82%
• carbon sequestration 59%
• economic valuation 53%
• economics 51%
• Minnesota River 48%
• sediments 46%
• culverts 41%
• hydrologic models 40%
• stream flow 37%
• forest conservation 36%
• pollution load 33%
• wood products 32%
• subsidies 30%
• bioenergy 28%
• Populus 25%
• woodlands 25%
• water quality 25%
• agricultural land 24%
• markets 17%
• nitrogen 14%
• crops 13%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• watershed 55%
• carbon sequestration 47%
• policy 46%
• economics 44%
• sediment 36%
• public 34%
• wood product 32%
• culvert 32%
• forest conservation 32%
• subsidy 27%
• savings 24%
• woodland 24%
• streamflow 22%
• agricultural land 20%
• market 18%
• crop 18%
• productivity 17%
• water quality 16%
• nitrogen 15%
• cost 13%
• river 12%
• simulation 11%
• rate 8%
• analysis 6%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Watersheds 95%
• Sediments 93%
• Economics 48%
• Carbon 38%
• Stream flow 37%
• Wood products 36%
• Water quality 30%
• Rivers 25%
• Conservation 24%
• Nitrogen 23%
• Productivity 20%
• Costs 9%