Boxwood moth
...d plant.Photo description: Two adult boxwood moths lie with their wings open on a white background. One has brown wings and a brown body, the other has translucent wings with brown edges an...
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Precision fishing
...ements of the length distributions per catch, they could estimate what the most interesting fishing grounds are at any given time. The ultimate goal of the system, in the long term, is to a...
Systems thinking
...and how one deals with that information and what one finds important is determined by one’s background, religion, experiences, circle of friends, studies, and by the culture in which one lives or g...
Nitrogen
... there are also more nitrogen losses to the environment. A high concentration of nitrate (NO3- ) in groundwater and surface water can have a negative impact on drinking water quality. Together with...
Erosion
...he soil covered as much as possible with crops, e.g. green coverers or crops with a good (and fast) groundcoverKeep crop residues/ green cover crop residues on the surface by not plowingLeave more ...
Stray voltage in the dairy barn
...f a cow comes into contact with this conductor, and its body is the path of least resistance to the ground, the current will flow to the ground via the cow's body. Abnormal behaviors When ...
Soil: carbon sequestration
ILVO examines the impact of elevated groundwater tables on soil carbon stocks and examines the value of these soils
Authenticity of food products
...sts in well-equipped laboratories. DNA techniques: fast and accurate Filets of fish or ground meat is impossible to identify based on morphological characteristics, but DNA-based metho...
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to agriculture
...es and extensive grasslands is conducive to natural enemies.The studied natural pest predators (ground beetles, short-shelled beetles and spiders) and pollinators (bees and hoverflies) were bot...
Ecosystem-oriented marine modeling and management
... potential for reducing seabed impacts through gear changes or avoidance of sensitive fishing grounds. ILVO intends to provide advice through its position with the international scientific communit...
Alternatives to castration of piglets
...under anesthesia and with pain relief was seen as a solution for a long time, but fell into the background after the Brussels Declaration (2010). That document proposed to stop castration by 2018 i...
Water in agriculture
It often rains in Belgium, and yet, the demand for water is higher than what our groundwater resources and rivers can support. This will certainly be the case in the future, where we can expect more w...
Soil health
... provide numerous additional ecosystem services such as climate regulation, richer below- and above-ground biodiversity, better water management, etc.