ProPopulus Team Assessing the health of a poplar plantation without physically setting foot on the ground is now a reality, thanks to a groundbreaking study conducted at the Ponferrada Campus of the University of León. Through the use of satellite imagery, biophysical modelling and artificial intelligence algorithms, a team of researchers has succeeded in identifying…
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ProPopulus Team The BioPoptech project has concluded with outstanding results, establishing itself as a key initiative for the future of the poplar sector in Spain. Throughout its development, it successfully brought together science, forestry, and industry with the goal of revitalizing and modernizing poplar plantations through an innovative, sustainable approach aligned with today’s challenges. Led…
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ProPopulus Team In previous posts we have delved in the cultivation of poplars in Italy and France. Now is Spain’s turn. The cultivation of poplars (genus Populus) in Spain has been extensively developed and has experienced significant growth in recent decades. The country has a National Catalog of basic materials for the production of forest…
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ProPopulus Team In an effort to drive innovation in the forestry sector and enhance productivity in poplar cultivation, the University of León (ULE) has established a fruitful collaboration with Garnica, and its Research Group DRACONES. This partnership is part of the European project DIGIS3, which aims to promote the European Hub for Digital Innovation in…
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ProPopulus Team A team of Swedish researchers is proposing poplar as an alternative to cotton. Their research aims at replacing cotton fibre for textiles with fibre for textiles from fast-growing poplars. Today, worldwide there are 34.5 million hectares of arable land fit for food crops currently devoted to cotton cultivation. By substituting cotton fibres with…
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ProPopulus Team As the world moves towards a cleaner green bioeconomy, new research on the uses of poplar bark and leaves, and its potential phytochemicals as value-added co-products are being developed through biorefinery. Recently a team of researchers led by the biochemistry professor John Ralph PhD’82, based in the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC),…
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ProPopulus Team The possibilities that wood offers never cease to amaze. It is a renewable, recyclable and sustainable material that not only has many and varied industrial applications, from making furniture to building wind towers and skyscrapers, including packaging, textiles, and clean energy, but it also helps in the challenges posed by climate change through…
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ProPopulus Team Tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia will stop absorbing carbon dioxide of the atmosphere by 2035, according to a new research published by Nature on March 4th, that analysed 565 forests over the last 30 years. The conclusion is nothing but saddening and alarming. Until now, scientists had developed their climate models under…
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ProPopulus Team Although poplar cultivation is a strategic sector for the forest-wood supply chain in Italy and represents the most significant internal source for primary wood transformation, it occupies a very small portion of the national area (less than 1%) compared to that of forests. As part of the support strategies for the supply of…
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Propopulus Team In collaboration with our sponsors France Bois Forêt and Garnica, amongst others, the French National Poplar Council (CNP) has launched a research programme in France to make annual mappings of poplar plantations using satellite remote sensing. It will also monitorthe status and progress exhaustively. Currently, poplar plantations in France are distributed in small…
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