Elephants in Artis Zoo (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) produce high quantities of manure daily, which is currently being discarded as waste. Potentially, elephant manure could be used as a fertiliser and/or soil improver. To explore this, an aerobic incubation experiment was carried out in the laboratory. Results were evaluated by modelling, using def...
The accumulation of microplastics poses potential risks to soil health. Here, we did a preliminary exploration on the potential of Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta) to reduce low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polylactic acid (PLA), and polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) microplastic (20–648 µm) contamination in soils. The ingestion of microp...
Milk phospholipids (PLs) are critical components of infant growth. This study aimed to discover PL in mature human milk (HM) from China (n = 201) and mainly assessed the effect caused by sampled regions. The average total PL concentration was quantified from 3.65 to 11.25 mg per g of lipid, and the major PL class identified was sphingomyelin (SM, 3...
The increasing application of digitalization in agriculture can play an important role in enhancing the agricultural sustainability. To achieve sustainability potentials and to be able to execute the relevant technologies, broad support from the public is necessary. Currently, little is known about the media coverage of digitalization in agricultur...
In hoogveenrestanten wordt geprobeerd actieve veenvorming weer op gang te krijgen. Noodzakelijke randvoorwaarden daarbij zijn stabiele hoge waterstanden en een nieuwe veenmosrijke toplaag met een groot waterbergend vermogen, een zogenaamde acrotelm, boven op het oude verdroogde en compacte veen. Alleen bultvormende veenmossoorten kunnen een acrotel...
In the seventeenth century, Dutch water management technology was leading Europe. Dutch expertise was transmitted not only to countries around the North Sea, but also to the Baltic and to the Mediterranean coasts of France and Italy, often accompanied with Dutch capital. Dutch technology and Dutch capital made the reclamation of tens of thousands o...
Voor het visserijbeheer van snoekbaars, baars, blankvoorn en brasem op het IJssel-/Markermeer zal in 2023 een zogenaamde beheerstrategieëvaluatie uitgevoerd worden. In een beheerstrategieëvaluatie wordt een virtuele wereld gecreëerd, waarbij de geschiedenis van een visbestand wordt nagebootst. In deze virtuele wereld worden vervolgens verschille...
Data assimilation (DA) is the overarching term for an ensemble of techniques to combine all possible information (models, observations, a priori data and statistics) to obtain the best possible estimate of the state of a system (Zhang & Moore, 2015). Data assimilation has its origins in meteorology and found its way into operational weather forecas...
