The continued production of waste is creating management problems. The use of traditional
waste management methods, such as incineration and landfill, releases gases that may …

Energy crops are dedicated cultures directed for biofuels, electricity, and heat production.
Due to their tolerance to contaminated lands, they can alleviate and remediate land pollution …

Physical activity in general and sports in particular, is a mechanism that produces stress and
generates great force in the tendon and in the muscle-tendon unit, which increases the risk …

Different formulations of phenolic resins based on two natural products, namely, lignin and
tannins, were implemented as biobased fireproofing coatings for wood. Moreover, inorganic …

Hydrothermal gasification of isolated hemicellulose from the white poplar (Populus alba L.)
and white poplar sawdust were studied to evaluate the effects of temperature (in the range of …

Exhaustion of fossil fuel resources, shrinking forest areas, with accompanying deterioration
of their quality and striving (also of the society) to make forests perform their ecological …

Torrefaction, a thermal treatment, was studied as a means to increase calorific properties in
sawdust biomass for some wooden species from southeast Europe. Torrefaction of wood …

Fertilizer application plays a crucial role in the decomposition of white poplar leaf litter and
cycling of nutrients within forest ecosystems. The impact of various fertilizer additions on …

Most climate change mitigation scenarios rely on the incremental use of biomass as energy
feedstock. Therefore, increasing the share of alternative sustainable energy sources as …

Barriers to continuous cropping of poplar plantations are closely related to the accumulation
of phenolic acids in the soil. The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanism …