Living organisms have to deal with changing environmental conditions during their whole life cycle. In contrast to animals, plants are sessile organisms. Therefore they have evolved multiple regulatory mechanisms that help them to cope with changing conditions. One of the first responses to stress conditions is reduction or arrest of growth. Theref...
Ende, S.S.W. (2015). Culturing soles on ragworms: Growth and feeding behaviour. PhD thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Despite the high market demand and intensive research efforts since the 1960s commercial culture of common sole (Solea solea L.) has been unsuccessful. Problems related to availability and price of suitable raw materia...
In de teelt van de snij-orchidee Cymbidium werd tot voor kort geen drainwater hergebruikt omdat Cymbidium een vrijstelling had voor recirculatie. Inmiddels gelden voor Cymbidium ook emissienormen en is onderzoek gestart om vast te stellen bij welk Natriumniveau nadelige effecten op de gewasgroei op gaan treden. In een praktijkproef zijn bij een gel...
Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd om de invloed te bepalen van de hoogte (15-160 mg/kg voer) en duur (2- 8 weken) van gebruik van een kopersupplement in het voer van gespeende biggen op de groeiprestaties, mestconsistentie en expressie van genen gerelateerd aan de koperabsorptie vanuit verschillende segmenten van de dunne darm.
Land-based shellfish culture as a part of a multi-trophic aquaculture systems has yet to be implemented in Europe. Recently the pilot project Zeeuwse Tong (The Netherlands) evaluated the feasibility of a system of fish (Dover sole), ragworms, phytoplankton and bivalves. This thesis focused on the dietary fatty acids impact on growth, survival and f...
Light and temperature are important determinants of plant growth and development. Plant elongation is stimulated by positively increasing differences between day and night temperature (+DIF, phased cycles). In contrast, a negative temperature difference (-DIF, antiphased cycles) reduces elongation growth. In chapter 1the different responses of plan...
The evolution of hyper‐prolific sow breeds has led to a higher number of piglets born per sow per year. This increase in litter size has enlarged the number of light weight (or growth retarded) piglets, increased pre‐weaning mortality and heterogeneity at the end of the nursery phase (ten weeks of age). These poorly performing piglets represent a c...
Solid feeds (SF), comprising roughages and concentrates, represent an increasingly important source of nutrients for veal calves. From a welfare and economic perspective, there is a strong incentive to replace a considerable portion of the milk replacer (MR) by SF in the diet. However, interactions between MR and SF complicate the prediction of the...
Forests in the wet tropics harbour an incredible biodiversity, provide many ecosystem services and regulate climatic conditions on regional scales. Tropical forests are also a major component of the global carbon cycle, storing 25% of the total terrestrial carbon and accounting for a third of net primary production. This means that changes in fores...
