Global climate change, characterized by nitrogen (N) deposition and precipitation reduction, can disrupt soil microbial stoichiometry and soil nutrient availability, subsequently affecting soil nutrient cycles. However, the effects of N deposition an...
Although input use in organic agriculture is strictly regulated, and significantly less contentious inputs are applied in organic than in conventional farming systems, copper, mineral oil, external nutrient input, anthelmintics, antibiotics and vitam...
A massive shift in agricultural practices over the past decades, to support exceptionally high yields and productivities involving intensive agriculture, have led to unsustainable agriculture practices across the globe. Sustenance of such high yields...
Objective: To investigate the effect of nitrogen reduction combined with organic materials on crop growth of winter rapeseed and maize rotation in yellow soil. Methods: A 2-year, four-season winter rapeseed and maize rotation experiment using three o...
Excessive nutrient input from urban areas increases the occurrence of eutrophication. Control of nutrient loads is perceived as the primary restoration method. Quantifying temporal variation of nutrient loads is essential to understand the dynamic re...
Many lakes worldwide, including in China’s Yangtze River Basin, face eutrophication, which reduces phytoplankton diversity and increases bloom risk. Following severe pollution, these Chinese lakes have undergone substantial control and regulation. Ho...
Optimising fertilisation is an important part of maximising vegetable yield and quality whilst minimising environmental hazards. An accurate and efficient scheme of irrigation and fertiliser based on plants’ nutrient requirements at different g...
Excessive chemical fertilizer application in greenhouse vegetable cultivation results in environmental risks and residual nutrients in the soil. Conventional plot experiments conducted in one field cannot recommend fertilizer reduction to farmers whe...
Background: International strategies to reduce chronic diseases have called for a reduction in the amounts of saturated fat (SAFA), trans fat (TFA), salt and sugars in the global food supply. This paper describes the development approach and potentia...
Nutrient fluctuations and climate warming can synergistically affect trophic dynamics in lakes, resulting in enhanced symptoms of eutrophication, thereby potentially counteracting restoration measures. We performed a long-term study (23 years) of zoo...
The excess loading of nutrients generated by agricultural activities is a leading cause of water quality impairment across the globe. Various management practices have been developed and widely implemented as conservation management strategies to com...
Purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) offer a sustainable approach for biological wastewater treatment while simultaneously producing valuable by-products such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). This study investigates the effects of continuous light wave...
Background: The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) has emerged as a promising tool in sustainable waste management, owing to its larvae’s ability to efficiently convert organic waste into valuable biomass. Objective: This study investigates...
The ecological status of the two nautical mile (2 nm) coastal waters of Bulgaria (BG) and Romania (RO) is evaluated in terms of eutrophication, focusing on various environmental and chemical indicators related to nutrient enrichment and its effects....
Long-term large inputs of phosphorus (P) fertilizer in China have caused serious soil P accumulation, low P use efficiency (PUE) and high risk of P loss. Controlling the amount of P fertilizer applied presents an inevitable choice for improving the P...
In this study, an ion monitoring system using ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) was developed to maintain nutrient solutions in closed-loop hydroponic systems within plant factories. Based on this monitoring system, an algorithm and individual ion supp...
In this study, we investigated the effect of partially substituting inorganic nitrogen with bio-organic fertiliser on the ‘Tianhong2’ Fuji apple planting in Xinjiang. Bio-organic fertiliser was applied, and nitrogen was reduced by 20% (T2...
Excessive chemical fertilization in maize production has reduced fertilizer-use efficiency and increased pressure on soil quality, whereas reducing fertilizer input without yield loss remains challenging. This challenge has shifted attention toward s...
Swine effluents require effective treatment due to their high pollutant load, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, which can cause eutrophication of water bodies. This study focused on monitoring nutrient removal in a sequential biological reactor t...
Agriculture is considered a significant climate change (CC) driver due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the loss of fertilizers that contribute to water eutrophication. On the other hand, climate change effects are already impacting agriculture,...
Evidence-based knowledge of the relationship between foods and nutrients is needed to inform dietary-based guidelines and policy. Proper and tailored statistical methods to analyse food composition databases (FCDBs) could assist in this regard. This...
Eutrophication, driven by excessive nutrient inputs from agriculture, wastewater, and aquaculture, remains a pressing challenge for freshwater ecosystems. In response, the EU Nature Restoration Law (2024) sets ambitious targets for restoring degraded...
We conducted biophysical simulations using MapShed to determine the effects of adopting best management practices (BMPs) to reduce nutrients and sediment pollution in a watershed dominated by poultry production in the Saline Bayou Watershed, Louisian...
The San Francisco Bay Delta has been an estuary of low productivity, with causes hypothesized to relate to light limitation, grazing by invasive clams, and polluting levels of NH4+ discharge from a wastewater treatment plant. Suppression of phytoplan...
Excessive fertilizer application is a common practice in agricultural production in the North China Plain. To determine an optimal fertilization strategy for summer maize with nitrogen-fixing bacterial inoculation, we conducted a two-year field exper...
Determining the amount of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) discharged into lakes and assessing the effectiveness of reduction measures in a basin that involve the interaction of multiple factors are still daunting challenges. In this study, the random...
Decentralized graywater treatment using nature-based systems represents a sustainable, low-energy alternative to centralized wastewater technologies, particularly in water-scarce regions. This study evaluates the performance of a rain-garden-based co...
Constructed wetlands are one of the best technologies for wastewater treatment in small towns, small businesses or farms and/or livestock breeding. In this work, a wastewater depuration ecological system implemented in a hybrid constructed wetland to...
This paper has approached the study of dairy wastewater treatment and the simultaneous biocompound production by Porphyridium purpureum under continuous light and under a day–night cycle. The main goals were to achieve a reduction in the lactos...
This study explores the novel use of mixed cultures of microalgae—Spirulina platensis, Micractinium, and Chlorella—for nutrient removal from dairy wastewater (DW). Microalgae were isolated from a local wastewater treatment plant and culti...
The oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) and the dissolved oxygen (DO) have been monitored in a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Three thousand two hundred aeration–non-aeration cycles were recorded. They were analyzed by defining 16...
Black soldier fly (BSF) larvae are increasingly used in sustainable waste management, offering potential for the bioconversion of organic waste into insect-derived fertilizer and animal feed. This study investigates the impact of varied substrate mix...
Biochar application has been confirmed as an efficient way to increase the productivity of the agricultural system. However, the potential of biochar combined with reducing fertilization on the yield, and the fertilizer utilization efficiency of the...
Agricultural intensification has had the undesirable effect of degrading water quality throughout the United States. Nitrate pollution presents a difficult problem for rural and urban communities, and it contributes to the immense Gulf of Mexico Hypo...
Background: Loss of nutrients and organic carbon (OC) through leaching or erosion may degrade soil and water quality, which in turn could lead to food insecurity. Adding biochar to soil can effectively improve soil stability, therefore, evaluating th...
We investigated the effects of feeding different levels of crude protein (CP) on broiler performance, blood characteristics, meat quality, nutrient and nitrogen (N) availability, stress levels, and welfare indicators in a welfare environment. A total...
The intensive raising model for meat duck production has widely adopted cascading cages. However, investigations on low-protein diets for Pekin ducks under this model are scarce. Thus, a 3 × 6 factorial experiment was conducted using six dietar...
Stormwater runoff introduces several pollutants to the receiving water bodies that may cause degradation of the water quality. Stormwater management systems such as detention facilities and wetland can improve the water quality by removing various po...
After a local wastewater treatment plant significantly reduced phosphorus loading into a phytoplankton-dominated tributary of the Potomac River in the early 1980s, water quality and biological communities were monitored bi-weekly from April to Septem...
In Inner Mongolia, a major potato-producing region of China, suboptimal potassium (K) fertilization often compromises tuber quality and affects yield. A two-year field study (2022–2023) evaluated the effects of different K application rates and...
Constructed wetland has evolved into an effective treatment method of effluent, an important consideration in mitigating the escalating problem of antibiotic resistance in environmental and human health contexts. This study evaluated the performance...
Cropland acidification seriously restricts sustainable agricultural development. The main purpose of this study was to determine whether deeper tilling could alleviate topsoil acidification to improve the quality of arable land. A soil column incubat...
Watermelon suffers substantial post-harvest losses owing to strict quality standards, resulting in 20–30% of the crop being left unharvested. This study investigated the potential of valorizing dried watermelon pomace (DWP), a byproduct of wate...
The coastal Oder/Szczecin Lagoon is subject to multiple external changes, particularly the reduction in external nutrient loads and the impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves. By combining monitoring data...
A multi-objective chance-constrained programming integrated with Genetic Algorithm and robustness evaluation methods was proposed to weigh the conflict between system investment against risk for watershed load reduction, which was firstly applied to...
There is a need to develop sustainably sourced products that can address the needs for improved water retention in soils, slow the release rate of fertilizers (to prevent leaching and downstream eutrophication), and control soil pH for use in agricul...
Managing eutrophic waterbodies produced large quantity of cyanobacterial sludge (CS), a biomass rich in nitrogen (N) that can be recycled through composting. However, how this management affects the compost fertility and ammonia (NH3) volatilization...
Rainfall runoff can lead to a reduced soil quality and non-point source pollution through the removal of nutrients from the topsoil that are not utilized by plants. The use of biochar is an effective method to solve this problem. The aim of this stud...
Microalgae-based wastewater treatment offers an eco-friendly opportunity for simultaneous nutrient recovery and biomass generation, aligning with the circular bioeconomy concept. This approach aims to utilize the nutrients of potato industry wastewat...
Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a common cause of fetal/neonatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with increased offspring predisposition for cardiovascular disease (CVD) development. Mitochondria are essential organelles in maint...
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