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Landowners’ willingness to promote bioenergy production on wasteland − future impact on land use of cutaway peatlands
2017
Landowners are the key players in bioenergy production on wasteland; such as cutaway peatlands. In this study, the landowner's interest to use cutaway peatlands for bioenergy production was investigated using a survey and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) methods in an area in South Ostrobothnia, Finland. The focus was to identify which different bioenergy production chains are preferred by the respondents: combustion, gasification or biogas production from agriculture, energy-willow short-rotation forestry or forestry based energy crops. Also, the influence of personal environmental values on the selection was measured and the future impacts and barriers for the land use were assessed. …
Salix spp. Bark Hot Water Extracts Show Antiviral, Antibacterial, and Antioxidant Activities—The Bioactive Properties of 16 Clones
2021
Funding Information: This work was supported by Business Finland corona-co-creation funding for the project Antiviral Fibers?pilot with extracts from Finnish forests (grant: 40699/31/2020). This study was also funded by the Natural Resources Institute Finland?s strategic research funding to the projects ?More, faster, higher quality: potential of short-rotation aspen and willow biomass for novel products in bioeconomy? (AspenWill) and ?Added value potential of new and under-utilized fibre sources in Finnish value networks of green bioeconomy: prefeasibility, prototyping, and market acceptance? (VALUEPOT). In addition, Academy of Finland has supported this study via the project ?Antivirals f…
Honeybees affect floral microbiome composition in a central food source for wild pollinators in boreal ecosystems
2021
AbstractBasic knowledge on dispersal of microbes in pollinator networks is essential for plant, insect, and microbial ecology. Thorough understanding of the ecological consequences of honeybee farming on these complex plant–pollinator–microbe interactions is a prerequisite for sustainable honeybee keeping. Most research on plant–pollinator–microbe interactions have focused on temperate agricultural systems. Therefore, information on a wild plant that is a seasonal bottleneck for pollinators in cold climate such as Salix phylicifolia is of specific importance. We investigated how floral visitation by insects influences the community structure of bacteria and fungi in Salix phylicifolia inflo…
The Effect of Mechanocatalytic Pretreatment on the Structure and Depolymerization of Willow
2020
In this study, the effect of a mechanocatalytic pretreatment on the structure of willow and sugar release from pretreated willow was explored. In the mechanocatalytic approach, the pretreatment consists of solvent-free impregnation with sulfuric acid and a mechanical treatment with ball milling. Willow sawdust and pretreated samples were analyzed with field emission scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction. The products in the sugar solution were determined as the total reducing sugars with the 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid method and monosaccharides with capillary electrophoresis. According to the results, milling increased the sugar production, depending on the sulfuric acid load. T…