Take a closer look at biodiversity work going on at Great Lakes Bioenergy. Topics in this newsletter issue include:

Biodiversity-based services in biofuels: an emerging picture
Expanding experiments to better predict biofuel impacts
On the wing – grassland birds
Six-legged service providers
Insect-vectored plant viruses
Soil bacteria and greenhouse gases
Spotlight on Collaborators
Describing plant communities

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LI, B. Z., BALAN, V., YUAN, Y. J. & DALE, B. E. Process optimization to convert forage and sweet sorghum bagasse to ethanol based on ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreatment. Bioresour Technol, 101, 1285-92.
Abstract: With growing demand for bio-based fuels and chemicals, there has been much attention given to the performance of different feedstocks. We [...]