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Jamaluddin Fitrah Alam, Tamiji Yamamoto, Tetsuya Umino, Shinya Nakahara and Kiyonori Hiraoka
With the aim of simultaneously improving fishery production and utilizing forestry and oyster fishery wastes, three types of artificial timber reefs (ATRs)?constructed from simple timbers, timbers with oyster shells from local oyster farms, and timbers w...
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Vera Marcantonio, Andrea Monforti Ferrario, Andrea Di Carlo, Luca Del Zotto, Danilo Monarca and Enrico Bocci
Biomass is one of the most widespread and accessible energy source and steam gasification is one of the most important processes to convert biomass into combustible gases. However, to date the difference of results between the main models used to predict...
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Endre H. Hansen, Liviu T. Ene, Ernest W. Mauya, Zdenek Patocka, Tomá? Mikita, Terje Gobakken and Erik Næsset
Airborne laser scanner (ALS) data are used operationally to support field inventories and enhance the accuracy of forest biomass estimates. Modelling the relationship between ALS and field data is a fundamental step of such applications and the quality o...
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E.M. González-Ferreiro,D. Miranda,L. Barreiro-Fernandez,S. Bujan,J. Garcia-Gutierrez,U. Dieguez-Aranda
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Aims of study: To evaluate the potential use of canopy height and intensity distributions, determined by airborne LiDAR, for the estimation of crown, stem and aboveground biomass fractions.To assess the effects of a reduction in LiDAR pulse densities on ...
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Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez,Luis Nunes,Ângelo Sil,João Azevedo
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Aim of the study: To introduce and describe FlorNExT®, a free cloud computing application to estimate growth and yield of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) even-aged stands in the Northeast of Portugal (NE Portugal).Area of study: NE Portugal.Material ...
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Joshua Fong, Jerry Edge, Chris Underwood, Andy Tindale, Steve Potter and Hu Du
This research investigates the overall heating energy consumptions using various control strategies, secondary heat emitters, and primary plant for a building. Previous research has successfully demonstrated that a dynamic distributed heat emitter model ...
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Joshua Fong, Jerry Edge, Chris Underwood, Andy Tindale, Steve Potter and Hu Du
This research investigates the overall heating energy consumptions using various control strategies, secondary heat emitters, and primary plant for a building. Previous research has successfully demonstrated that a dynamic distributed heat emitter model ...
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Carmela Caroppo and Laura Giordano
A simulation of phytoplankton dynamics in the coastal shellfish farming site of Mar Piccolo in Taranto (Ionian, Mediterranean Sea) is here reported. This simulation is an element of a greater ecological model produced taking into account the System Appro...
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Vince Bakos, Péter Szombathy, József Simon, Andrea Jobbágy
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Detection and characterization of hidden industrial inflows causing high fluctuations of the inlet load, is a challenging issue pushing plant operators for a cost-effective solution at regional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). On the other hand, carb...
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Juha M. Metsaranta, Suzanne Beauchemin, Sean Langley, Bryan Tisch and Phyllis Dale
Restoring sites disturbed by industrial activity to a forested condition can ensure the continued provision of economic and ecosystem services from these areas. Impounded mine tailings are particularly challenging sites, and positive benefits of establis...
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Theano Samara, Dimitrios Raptis and Ioannis Spanos
The peri-urban and urban forests in Greece occupy a total area of 105.353 ha. In these vulnerable ecosystems, fire constitutes a natural disaster presenting particular challenges and specific difficulties. These include the high number of visitors as wel...
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Jose Javier Gorgoso-Varela,Juan Daniel García-Villabrille,Alberto Rojo-Alboreca,Klaus von Gadow,Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González
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Aim of study: In this study we compare the accuracy of three bivariate distributions: Johnson?s SBB, Weibull-2P and LL-2P functions for characterizing the joint distribution of tree diameters and heights.Area of study: North-West of Spain.Material and me...
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Gennaro Salvatore Ponticelli, Marianna Gallo, Ilaria Cacciotti, Oliviero Giannini, Stefano Guarino, Andrea Budelli and Roberto Nigro
Modelling and predicting of the kinetics of microbial growth and metabolite production during the fermentation process for functional probiotics foods development play a key role in advancing and making such biotechnological processes suitable for large-...
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Shuhan Xu, Feng Wang, Yuling Ding, Wenchao Liu, Yiyu Lan, Qingqing Jia, Peng Sun and Zhimin Sha
Rice?duckweed coculturing as an advanced technique has proven effective for weed control. However, the complex environmental interactions underlying its effectiveness remain unclear. In this study, a controlled pot experiment was conducted to isolate the...
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Karin S. Levin, Felizitas Winkhart, Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen, Hans Jürgen Reents and Karl Auerswald
Agricultural ammonia (NH3) emissions can have serious environmental impacts, lower fertiliser nitrogen-use efficiencies, and cause economic losses. NH3 losses may not only occur directly from organic fertilisers such as biogas digestates when applied to ...
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Nikolaos Mellios, S. Jannicke Moe and Chrysi Laspidou
Cyanobacterial blooms are considered a major threat to global water security with documented impacts on lake ecosystems and public health. Given that cyanobacteria possess highly adaptive traits that favor them to prevail under different and often compli...
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Chiara Bertolin
With a wide spectrum of data, case studies, monitoring, and experimental and numerical simulation techniques, the multidisciplinary approach of material, environmental, and computer science applied to the conservation of cultural heritage offers several ...
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Dhruv Mehta, Adithya Krishnan Thota Radhakrishnan, Jules Van Lier and Francois Clemens
The concentration (using a lesser amount of water) of domestic slurry promotes resource recovery (nutrients and biomass) while saving water. This article is aimed at developing numerical methods to support engineering processes such as the design and imp...
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Dhruv Mehta, Adithya Krishnan Thota Radhakrishnan, Jules van Lier and Francois Clemens
The concentration (using a lesser amount of water) of domestic slurry promotes resource recovery (nutrients and biomass) while saving water. This article is aimed at developing numerical methods to support engineering processes such as the design and imp...
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Rebecca Mary Bernadette Harris, Tomas Remenyi, Paul Fox-Hughes, Peter Love and Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Changes to the frequency of fire due to management decisions and climate change have the potential to affect the flammability of vegetation, with long-term effects on the vegetation structure and composition. Frequent fire in some vegetation types can le...
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