Short rotation coppices and water management of landscape

Short rotation coppices (SRCs, energy forest) became an accepted method to produce biomass for energy. The positive environmental effects of using biomass as a bio-fuel (e.g. reducing GHG, air pollution) were scientifically proved and these effects are now being used as the main argument in the discussion on whether the establishment of large plantations of SRC should be supported and subsidised. Much less is known about the other non-productive effects (functions) of an SRC on the cultural landscape and agro-ecosystems, which may have also positive effect on quality of the environment