Assessment of the Agronomic Feasibility of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation on Marginal and Polluted Land: A GIS-Based Suitability Study from the Sulcis Area, Italy
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agronomic feasibility; geographic information system (GIS); spatial analysis; biomass; land suitability; marginal land;All these keywords.
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