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Adding biochar to soil can affect the response of plants to biotic stresses because the biochar addition changes the plants’ chemical, microbial, and physical environments. These changes elicit cascading feedback responses in the plant that can activate or alter its innate defenses. This chapter has a number of aims: (i) briefly review plant pathogens and pests, and the defenses plants have against them; (ii) summarize the impact of biochar on ...

A sedimentary investigation was carried out into the rise and fall of mediaeval Bruges' maritime access. Because the mediaeval metropolis had no direct connection with the North Sea, its maritime connectivity during the High- and Late-Middle Ages depended on a tidal channel, known as the 'Zwin'. In order to reconstruct the mediaeval physical environmental situation correctly, the entire Holocene sedimentary record was studied through undisturbed ...

Het Vlaamse bodemkoolstofmonitoringnetwerk Cmon heeft tot doel om de organische-koolstof-voorraden in de bodems van verschillende landgebruiken (akkerland, blijvend grasland, bos, natuur en ruimtebeslag) en de evoluties hierin te monitoren. Dit document betreft het jaarrapport van het derde werkjaar van het koolstofmonitoringnetwerk (1 juli 2023 - 30 juni 2024).

Throughout history, European landscapes have been strongly influenced by farming practices. As a result, extensively managed farming landscapes provided a habitat to many species and nowadays, semi-natural habitats form the focus of nature conservation in Europe. During the past century, these farming landscapes became increasingly intensified, increasing food production levels throughout the region. However, the intensification of traditional ...

Land use change is a dominant source of habitat degradation worldwide and current effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, overall, are considered to be strong and typically negative. Indeed, when ecosystems change from a natural to an anthropogenically modified state, this often coincides with the loss of species and with them any associated ecosystem functions. This is true for terrestrial ecosystems and in most cases also for lentic ...

Social economic developments , including population growth are amongst the factors that influence land use changes. The associated demographic forces including, migration rates, settlement patterns, and the consequent demand for food, energy, and area for settlement, considerably contribute to the alteration of land use/cover. Increasing population density, together with levels of economic and social development, affect the demands that are ...

De manier waarop we in Vlaanderen produceren, consumeren en handel drijven, oefent ook buiten onze regiogrenzen een grote druk uit op de biodiversiteit. Een beleid dat de impact van Vlaanderen op de biodiversiteit in de wereld in rekening wil brengen, heeft gegevens nodig over de omvang van die impact, betrokken sectoren en landen. Dit rapport beschrijft een eerste set van voorlopige, experimentele indicatoren om die nood aan data aan te pakken. ...

Het onderzoek in dit proefschrift gata over nieuw technieken voor het monitoren van landgebruik en landbedekking te monitoren door fusie van diverse remote sensing-modaliteiten. Hyperspectrale beeldtechnologie capteert bijvoorbeeld heel informatieve spectrale en ruimtelijke kenmerken, maar kan temperatuur, hoogte van het landschap en verstrooiing van licht niet volledig capteren. Door hyperspectrale beelden te combineren met Light Detection and ...

Boosting Neolithic land-use studies in the Low Countries requires optimal geophysical survey. Hereby, forward modeling such subtle soil features in a sandy soil could support survey design. The models are parametrized through soil sample analyses and in situ data collection over a feature. Supplemented by long term in situ monitoring, these results reveal variable detectability. This approach enables a quantitative approach for geophysical ...