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Simona Pascariello, Michela Mazzoni, Roberta Bettinetti, Marina Manca, Martina Patelli, Roberta Piscia, Sara Valsecchi and Stefano Polesello
Zooplankton is a key node in many trophic webs, both for food that for persistent organic contaminants that can accumulate in biota. Zooplankton of different size was seasonally sampled for two years in three deep Italian subalpine lakes (Maggiore, Como,...
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Xiaogang Chen, Qi Ye, Jinzhou Du and Jing Zhang
Nutrients and organic pollutants transported by submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) play a significant role in controlling water quality, and can lead to the concerned deleterious effects on marine ecosystems. Subterranean estuaries are complicated hab...
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Kinga Nagyné Pércsi, Apolka Ujj, Wifek Essoussi, Gyöngyi Györéné Kis and Paulina Jancsovszka
Food production and consumption have a major impact on the environment and human health. Therefore, it is important to achieve transformations towards greater sustainability in the food sector. As in other countries around the world, Hungarian organic fo...
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Martina Zámková, Stanislav Rojík, Martin Prokop, Simona Cincalová and Radek Stolín
The organic market in the Czech Republic has been growing dynamically, mainly in the last two decades. It is increasing the number of organic farms and producers of organic food. It was also identified as growing in popularity with Czech customers in the...
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Techane Bosona
The increasing population pressure and demand for quality food, and the significant burden of agriculture on the environment, impede the sustainable development of the food sector. Understanding the environmental performance of different agricultural tec...
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Daniel I. Chiciudean, Vanessa P. Shonkwiler, Iulia C. Mure?an, Alina Zaharia and Gabriela O. Chiciudean
The hospitality industry has taken advantage of consumers? increasing concerns regarding environmental issues. Worldwide, green restaurants have increased their profitability by using environmental attributes as a competitive advantage. In Romania, resta...
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José L. S. Pereira, Telma Costa, Vitor Figueiredo, Francisco Marques, Adelaide Perdigão, Isabel Brás, Maria E. F. Silva and Dulcineia F. Wessel
Composting is one of the best organic waste management techniques, with zero waste; however, it generates environmental impacts. The objective of this study was to evaluate the emission of NH3, N2O, CO2, and CH4 from the composting of olive, elderberry, ...
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Witold Grzebisz, Alicja Niewiadomska, Jaroslaw Potarzycki and Agnieszka Andrzejewska
Phosphorus resources, both in phosphate rocks and in the soil, are limited. However, effective food production is not possible without the use of P fertilizers. Recognizing and eliminating or at least ameliorating factors (hot spots) that interfere with ...
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Xue Xie, Yulin Liao, Yanhong Lu, Jianglin Zhang, Peng Li, Youyun Tang, Weidong Cao, Yajie Gao and Jun Nie
The excessive application of chemical fertilizers in rice fields exacerbates soil degradation and poses a threat to food security. Achieving an increase in rice production and minimizing environmental costs are inevitable requirements for achieving susta...
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Panpan Liu, Dong Wang, Yue Li, Ji Liu, Yongxing Cui, Guopeng Liang, Chaoqun Wang, Chao Wang, Daryl L. Moorhead and Ji Chen
Although crop conversion from annual to perennial crops has been considered as one path towards climate-smart and resource-efficient agriculture, the effects of this conversion on soil multifunctionality and biomass yields remain unclear. The objective o...
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