Biofilms consist of microorganisms attached to a surface and embedded in a protective matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Within a biofilm, micro-organisms are protected from harsh environmental conditions including those resulting from cleaning and disinfecting agents leading to food safety and quality issues after dispersal of life biof...
In the S2Biom project the logistical case study in Burgundy was the first that wasperformed. The data were based on the results of the LogistEC project, which had already performed a thorough assessment of the case. Therefore, the S2Biom case study was especially used to develop the new tool LocaGIStics, and to illustrate the possibilities of such ...
The NAGA foundation aims to establish Hydrologic Corridors, wherein re-greening and restoration ofthe landscape interacts with regional rain-bringing wind patterns to intensify the local hydrologic cycleto a point that a permanently greener and more productive ecosystem can be sustained. The initialsearch area, as defined by NAGA, targets the Kenya...
Ecosystem services and biodiversity are important for human well-being. Ecosystem services are the contributions of ecosystems to benefits used in economic and other human activity. This thesis aims to empirically assess how spatial models for ecosystem service flows and biodiversity can be applied in the context of ecosystem accounting, management...
Rivers export increasing amounts of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the coastal waters of China. This causes eutrophication problems that can damage living organisms when oxygen levels drop and threaten human health through toxic algae. We know that these problems result from human activities on land such as agriculture and urbanization. However...
The North Sea horse mackerel stock is currently classified by ICES as a data poor stock, for which the catch advice is based on the trend in an abundance index. The development of an analytical stock assessment, necessary to give more accurate advice, is hampered by a number of limitations on the input data, among which the most important are the p...
In recent years, ecological effect models have been put forward as tools for supporting environmental decision-making. Often they are the only way to take the relevant spatial and temporal scales and the multitude of processes characteristic to ecological systems into account. Particularly for environmental risk assessments of pesticides the potent...
Marktgericht produceren begint bij de smaak. Maar van welke smaak houdt de consument? Wageningen UR Glastuinbouw ontwikkelde een meetmodel voor de smaak van tomaten, paprika's en meloenen en werkt nu aan de aardbei. Bovendien brengt het de smaak van consumententypen in kaart. "Als je de smaakvoorkeur van consumenten kent, dan kun je pas écht produc...
Om inzicht te krijgen in de herkomst van nutriënten in de Krimpenerwaard is een modelinstrumentarium gebouwd dat de waterbalans en nutriëntenbalans in beeld brengt voor vier afwateringsgebieden binnen de Krimpenerwaard. Vervolgens is de beïnvloedbaarheid van bronnen afgeleid conform de werkwijze die wordt toegepast door de Nutriëntenwerkgroep Rijn-...
TOXSWA calculates exposure concentrations of plant protection products in water and in sediment and isused in risk assessment studies of aquatic organisms. Replacement of the TOXSWA 1.2 software by the morerecent FOCUS_TOXSWA software for use with the NL standard scenarios was investigated. The impact of thereplacement on the calculated exposure co...
