Replacing agricultural land for energy crop plantations, as the former lack proper structure (because of following mono agricultural pattern) cannot be justified by any possible terms. The biodiversity that energy crops support can have a positive impact on one type of species where a completely harmful impact on another. Planting non indigenous crops for the sake for increasing production and profit may harm the local bio diversity even further. Often non indigenous crops destroy the natural landscape and may lead to fragmentation of the ecological diversity. It is a common belief that energy crops plantations can serve as buffer zones/corridors that are capable of providing additional ecological services. Proper evaluation is required to further justify this claim. .
