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Losers and winners: responses of grassland arthropods to land‐use components

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
Intensified land‐use in grasslands reduces biodiversity, particularly affecting arthropod populations. However, responses of individual species vary depending on their ecological traits and habitat requirements. Some species may tolerate or even benefit from intensive land‐use, while others, particularly specialists or those with narrow niches, are ...
Margarita Hartlieb   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation of Livestock Breeding Economics in Conditions of the EU [PDF]

open access: yes
In the paper there are described mathematical principles of biological, technological and economic model relations and connections in animal breeding on which the mathematical model AGRO-ZV is based.
Foltyn, Ivan, Kopecek, Petr
core   +1 more source

Peluang Pengembangan Usaha Sapi Perah Di Daerah Dataran Rendah Kabupaten Cirebon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
A field study on dairy cattle farms development in low land was conducted in Cirebon district applying a survey method to record all existing dairy cattle farms in the region.
Kusnadi, U. (U), Siregar, S. B. (S)
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Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes across Europe remain insufficient, as biodiversity further declines. This is sometimes ascribed to conservation policy failing to address the meanings and values that farmers attribute to the social and ecological contexts shaping their decisions influencing biodiversity.
Maria L. Kernecker   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' adaptation and mitigation practices in the Upper Rhine Valley: Drivers, synergies and trade‐offs

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Short Abstract Through interviews with farmers in the Upper Rhine Valley, this article analyses the objectives, drivers and obstacles to adaptation practices and their synergies and trade‐offs with mitigation and other social and environmental issues.
Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience through diversity: The potential of modelling species and variety interactions to enhance resilience of production systems

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Agricultural production systems in the global North combine monocultures of specialised varieties and breeds with external interventions and inputs. Increasing the diversity of varieties, breeds and species may increase the system's resilience to external pressures through beneficial interactions.
Marinus J. M. Smulders   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and fermentative activity of rumen anaerobic fungi in dairy cows

open access: yesRevista de Ciências Agroveterinárias, 2015
The possibility of biotechnological application of anaerobic fungi and their biomass-degrading enzymes has been a growing area of research and development over the past decade.
Juliana Alves Resende   +7 more
doaj  

Dairy development in Ethiopia: [PDF]

open access: yes
Ethiopia holds large potential for dairy development due to its large livestock population, the favorable climate for improved, high-yielding animal breeds, and the relatively disease-free environment for livestock.
Ehui, Simeon   +2 more
core  

Biogas plant in Järna [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The Biodynamic Research Institute in Järna developed an on-farm biogas plant integrated within the highly self-supporting farm organism, Skilleby-Yttereneby, one of the farms studied in the BERAS project.
Evers, Lars   +2 more
core  

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