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2025
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Quentin Lardy Haldis Kismul Shelemia Nyamuryekung'e Jorid Sandvik Mårten Hetta Mohammad Ramin Vibeke LindAbstract
Comparative studies between pasture-based dairy production and indoor confinement-based production have demonstrated that including pasture in the diet reduces enteric methane emissions. However, the effects of seasonal access to pasture, where animals are allowed outdoors only during parts of the year, have been less extensively studied. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of providing dairy cows with voluntary access to a production pasture compared with an exercise pasture on their performance and enteric methane emission. Thirty-two lactating Norwegian Red dairy cows, averaging 158 DIM, were divided into 2 groups and used in a changeover experimental design. The treatments included cows given 24-h access to either a production pasture (providing at least 50% of cows' daily DMI) with unlimited fresh grass and restricted indoor feeding, or ad libitum indoor feeding of silage with access to an exercise pasture with no expected herbage intake. Each changeover period included 2 wk of adaptation followed by 2 wk of recording, during which both treatments were fed the same grass silage and concentrates. Milk yield was recorded using an automatic milking unit, and indoor feed intake was recorded using access-controlled feed troughs and concentrate feeders. Enteric methane emissions were monitored using 2 GreenFeed emission monitoring systems: one positioned indoors, and one positioned outdoors adjacent to the production pasture. Cows on production pasture exhibited a lower milking frequency and reduced milk yield compared with cows on exercise pasture. However, cows on production pasture compensated for the lower milk yield by increased concentration of milk solids, suggesting that including a significant amount of pasture in the diet of dairy cows may not compromise energy-corrected milk production. Additionally, cows in the production pasture had significantly lower enteric methane emissions compared with cows in the exercise pasture. In conclusion, incorporating pasture into the diets of dairy cows, even if only for part of the year, has the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of dairy production.
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Vibeke LindAbstract
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Qiang Liu Mahmoud Mazarji Yeqing Li Lu Feng Hongjun Zhou Quan Xue Alastair James Ward Yajing Wang Chunmin Xue Pan JuntingAbstract
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Michel VerheulAbstract
To document effects of High-Pressure-Sodium (HPS) and Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) lamps, six different cucumber cultivars (‘DeeRect’, ‘HiLight’, ‘Imea’, ‘Keirin’, ‘Shakira’ and ‘Topvision’) were grown hydroponically in a semi-commercial greenhouse compartment using standard HPS or LED supplemental top-light from December to March. A PPFD of 240 µmol m-2s-1, 20h a day, was used for both lamp types. In addition, plants were grown with or without LED inter-lighting (45 µmol m-2s-1, 20h a day). Global radiation during the experiment was less than 1.5 MJ m-2day-1. Setpoints for day and night temperatures were 24 and 21 oC respectively. CO2 concentration in the greenhouse was kept at 1100 ppm. Morphological traits (stem length, leaf area, leaf thickness, dry weights), yield (fruit fresh weight and number of fruits) as well as quality parameters were registered. Results show that the use of LED top-light reduced yield considerably compared to HPS top-light, mainly due to a reduction in the number of 1st class fruits harvested. Plants grown using HPS top-light were longer, had more internodes, a higher fruit weight, bigger leaf area and leaf area index (LAI) and ‘thinner’ leaves compared to plants grown using LED top-light. Light use efficiency (g FW mol PAR-1) was highest using HPS or a combination of HPS and LED inter-light and lowest using LED combined with LED inter-lighting, especially at the start of the harvesting period. Huge differences in yield reduction between different cultivars were observed. LED top light reduced the yield of ‘DeeRect’ with 35% and of ‘HiLight’ with 5% compared to HPS top light. Little differences in quality traits were observed between cultivars grown under HPS or LED lamps. However, inter lighting increased fruit weight and fruit quality (color, dry matter content, soluble solid content, chlorophyll content, vitamin C content and storage properties). Causes of differences between lamp types and effects on commercial greenhouse cucumber production in Norway are discussed.
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Michel VerheulAbstract
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Getachew Birhanu Abera Aryan Bhusal Thea Os Andersen Shuai Wang Nabin Aryal Svein Jarle Horn Lu FengAbstract
In-situ biomethanation is an efficient process for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) to methane (CH4) using hydrogen (H2) alongside anaerobic digestion (AD) process. However, AD of protein rich substrate often leads to the accumulation of ammonia nitrogen at high concentration. As a major inhibitor, this accumulation affects not only the AD process but also in-situ biomethanation. This study investigated the impact of ammonia nitrogen (0.5–5 g/L) on biomethanation performance using anaerobic moving-bed biofilm reactors (AnMBBRs). Without biofilm/biocarrier support, methane production was significantly inhibited above 3 g/L of ammonia nitrogen. In contrast, AnMBBR maintained high methane yields of 156.5 NmL/Lreactor at 2.5 g/L and 151.3 NmL/Lreactor at 5 g/L ammonia nitrogen, representing increases of 49 % and 76 %, respectively, compared to reactors without biofilm. Microbial analysis via 16S rRNA sequencing showed that Methanothermobacter, a thermophilic hydrogenotrophic methanogen, increased in relative abundance under ammonia nitrogen stress, which was further supported by carbon isotope analysis. Overall, these results highlighted the potential of AnMBBR to overcome ammonia nitrogen stress in in-situ biomethanation.
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Stephan Arnold Geoffrey Smith Geir-Harald Strand Gerard Hazeu Michael Bock Barbara Kosztra Christoph Perger Gebhard Banko Tomas Soukup Nuria Valcarcel Sanz Stefan Kleeschulte Julian Delgado Hernandez Emanuele MancosuAbstract
The demand for land monitoring information continues to increase, but the range and diversity of the available products to date have made their integrated use challenging and, at times, counterproductive. There has therefore been a growing need to enhance and harmonise the practice of land monitoring on a pan-European level with the formulation of a more consistent and standardised set of modelling criteria. The outcome has been a paradigm shift away from a “paper map”-based world where features are given a single, fixed label to one where features have a rich characterisation which is more informative, flexible and powerful. The approach allows the characteristics to be dynamic so that, over time, a feature may only change part of its description (i.e., a forest can be felled, but it may remain as forestry if replanted) or it can have multiple descriptors (i.e., a forest may be used for both timber production and recreation). The concept proposed by the authors has evolved since 2008 from first drafts to a comprehensive and powerful tool adopted by the European Union’s Copernicus programme. It provides for the semantic decomposition of existing nomenclatures, as well as supports a descriptive approach to the mapping of all landscape features in a flexible and object-oriented manner. In this way, the key move away from classification towards the characterisation of the Earth’s surface represents a novel and innovate approach to handling complex land surface information more suited to the age of distributed databases, cloud computing and object-oriented data modelling. In this paper, the motivation for and technical approach of the EAGLE concept with its matrix and UML model implementation are explained. This is followed by an update of the latest developments and the presentation of a number of experimental and operational use cases at national and European levels, and it then concludes with thoughts on the future outlook.
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Alexander Jueterbock Clément Gauci Anne Margrete Leiros Nilsen Niko Steiner Ananya Khatei Griffin Goldstein Hill Leo Minini Christian Guido Bruckner Nikolai Buer Ralf Rautenberger Mark J. Cock Inka BartschAbstract
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