Optimising Nutrition for Sustainable Pig Production: Strategies to Quantify and Mitigate Environmental Impact DOI Creative Commons
Shane Maher, Torres Sweeney, J.V. O’Doherty

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Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(10), P. 1403 - 1403

Published: May 13, 2025

The intensifying global demand for food presents significant challenges sustainable pig production, particularly in the context of escalating input costs, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. Life cycle assessment provides a comprehensive framework quantifying impacts identifying production hotspots within systems. Feed manure management are consistently identified as major contributors, emphasising need targeted interventions. Although soybean meal remains key protein source, its association with deforestation biodiversity loss is driving an interest more alternatives. In temperate climates, faba beans offer promising, locally sourced option, though their wider adoption limited by amino acid imbalances anti-nutritional factors. Grain preservation another critical consideration, post-harvest losses fungal contamination compromise feed quality animal health. Organic has emerged energy-efficient, cost-effective alternative to industrial drying, improving storage stability reducing fossil fuel dependence. Additional nutritional strategies, including dietary crude reduction, carbohydrate source modification, additive inclusion, maternal interventions, can enhance nutrient utilisation, intestinal health, herd resilience while mitigating impact. This review explores practical feed-based strategies support sustainable, resilient, resource-efficient contribute security.

Language: Английский

Development of a Drought Monitoring System for Winter Wheat in the Huang-Huai-Hai Region, China, Utilizing a Machine Learning–Physical Process Hybrid Model DOI Creative Commons

Qianchuan Mi,

Zhiguo Huo,

Meixuan Li

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Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 696 - 696

Published: March 13, 2025

Droughts, intensified by climate change and human activities, pose a significant threat to winter wheat cultivation in the Huang-Huai-Hai (HHH) region. Soil moisture drought indices are crucial for monitoring agricultural droughts, while challenges such as data accessibility soil heterogeneous necessitate use of numerical simulations their effective regional-scale applications. The existing simulation methods like physical process models machine learning (ML) algorithms have limitations: struggle with parameter acquisition at regional scales, ML face difficulties settings due presence crops. As more advanced complex branch ML, deep even greater limitations related crop growth management. To address these challenges, this study proposed novel hybrid system that merged model. Initially, we employed Random Forest (RF) regression model integrated multi-source environmental factors estimate prior sowing wheat, achieving an average coefficient determination (R2) 0.8618, root mean square error (RMSE) 0.0182 m3 m−3, absolute (MAE) 0.0148 m−3 across eight depths. RF provided vital parameters operation Water Balance Winter Wheat (WBWW) scale, enabling assessments combined Moisture Anomaly Percentage Index (SMAPI). Subsequent comparative analyses between system-generated results actual disaster records during two events highlighted its efficacy. Finally, utilized examine spatiotemporal variations patterns HHH region over past decades. findings revealed overall intensification conditions decline SMAPI rate −0.021% per year. Concurrently, there has been shift patterns, characterized increase both frequency extremity events, duration intensity individual decreased majority Additionally, identified northeastern, western, southern areas requiring concentrated attention targeted intervention strategies. These efforts signify notable application fusion techniques integration within big context, thereby facilitating prevention, management, mitigation

Language: Английский

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Optimization strategies to improve the carbon sink capacity of C3 plants under the background of dual carbon strategy DOI
Meng‐Meng Zhao, Zixuan Guo, Mingxia Zhang

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Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 109837 - 109837

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Biochar and Mulch: Hydrologic, Erosive, and Phytotoxic Responses Across Different Application Strategies and Agricultural Soils DOI Creative Commons

João Nuno Gomes Vicente Canedo,

L.H.L. Coelho,

Luiz de Paula Castro

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Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(4), P. 926 - 926

Published: April 10, 2025

Agricultural intensification often contributes to soil degradation. Mulch and biochar help reduce erosion runoff while improving organic matter crop habitat. However, optimal application strategies the combined advantages of mulch remain underexplored. This study aimed evaluate how affect hydrology, erosion, phytotoxicity, under mixed layered strategies: (i) mix (2.8% by weight); (ii) layer (surface 10 Mg ha−1); (iii) (2 ha−1 straw mulch); (iv) + (a 2 on top a ha−1). Thirty-minute rainfall simulations (at 85.6 mm h−1) sandy loam soils vineyard olive orchard tested treatment effects hydrology erosion. The leachate collected from was used test treatments using Lactuca sativa L. Runoff interrill decreased 52–91% 55–81%, respectively, with greatest reductions in that included layer. Biochar increased root length (29–45%), had no significant effect. performed best, highlighting products’ complementary benefits reducing degradation

Language: Английский

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Progress and Trends in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Research: A Bibliometric Analysis DOI Creative Commons

Yufeng Ju,

Nasrin Azad, Weiting Ding

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Agriculture, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(8), P. 826 - 826

Published: April 10, 2025

Understanding of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and its research progress applications is critical to answer scientific questions related climate change. While numerous papers based on CMIP have been published, there no quantitative study examining variability, predictability, change supported by CMIP. Therefore, statistical characteristics CMIP-related publications, including journals, disciplines, co-occurrence burst detection keywords, bibliographic coupling, were analyzed using bibliometric analysis. The results show that has increased exponentially from 2000 2023. About 20% was published in Journal Climate Dynamics. spanned several meteorology, atmospheric science, geosciences, environmental sciences. United States, China, Kingdom ranked top three for publications. prominent focus involved whole system, behavior, carbon cycle, sea surface temperature, ice, modeling, bias correction, simulations, sensitivity, extreme events, soil moisture, hydrology, future This can help relevant scientists better understand developments trends research, thereby facilitating use data.

Language: Английский

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Enhancing Climate Resilience and Food Security in Greece Through Agricultural Biodiversity DOI Creative Commons
Efstratios Loizou, Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos, Stavros Kalogiannidis

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Land, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 838 - 838

Published: April 11, 2025

This study examined how agricultural biodiversity can build climate change resilience and food security in Greece. The aims of this were to identify examine the role genetic, species, ecosystem, functional diversity enhancing against volatility. Data collected from 384 specialists Greece using a quantitative, cross-sectional survey technique. self-administered questionnaire elicited information on perceived effectiveness different types sustaining yield stability for crops, pest disease control, soil conservation, nutrient cycling. hypotheses tested descriptive statistics multiple regression analysis. findings revealed that genetic decreases crop risks, species lowers vulnerability, ecosystem impacts water optimize cycling services. analysis was able explain 62.1% variability resilience, underlining importance conservation biological provision food. points need bio-diversity management agriculture address support productivity production.

Language: Английский

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Phenological Development, Thermal Requirement, and Quality of ‘BRS Núbia’ (Vitis vinifera L. x Vitis labrusca L.) Grapes on Different Rootstocks DOI Creative Commons
Harleson Sidney Almeida Monteiro, Marco António Tecchio, Sinara de Nazaré Santana Brito

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Horticulturae, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(5), P. 466 - 466

Published: April 26, 2025

The cultivation of table grapes in Brazil is economically significant, with production influenced by edaphoclimatic factors and rootstock selection. cultivar ‘BRS Núbia’ (Vitis vinifera L. x Vitis labrusca L.) a promising alternative; however, its phenological behavior, thermal requirements, compatibility different rootstocks under subtropical conditions require further evaluation. This study aimed to assess the duration stages, requirement, ripening dynamics grapevines grafted onto ‘IAC 572 Jales’, 766 Campinas’, ‘Paulsen 1103’. experiment was conducted São Manuel, Paulo, during 2021 2022 cycles using split-plot experimental design (3 × 2). Evaluations included stages from pruning budburst, flowering, fruit set, onset ripening, harvest, as well curve accumulation harvest. Rootstocks did not significantly affect (p > 0.05) stages; differences were observed between cycles. cycle longer (167.7 days) compared (142.6 days), greater (1871.7 GDDs vs. 1743.4 GDDs). analysis revealed that, across both evaluated, required an average 1807.5 growing degree days Soluble solids content ranged 17.43 18.50°Brix, titratable acidity decreased throughout maturation. maturation index highest vines 1103’, indicating positive influence on quality. grapevine exhibited mean requirement (GDDs) complete cycle, which lasted approximately 150 conditions.

Language: Английский

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Optimising Nutrition for Sustainable Pig Production: Strategies to Quantify and Mitigate Environmental Impact DOI Creative Commons
Shane Maher, Torres Sweeney, J.V. O’Doherty

et al.

Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(10), P. 1403 - 1403

Published: May 13, 2025

The intensifying global demand for food presents significant challenges sustainable pig production, particularly in the context of escalating input costs, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. Life cycle assessment provides a comprehensive framework quantifying impacts identifying production hotspots within systems. Feed manure management are consistently identified as major contributors, emphasising need targeted interventions. Although soybean meal remains key protein source, its association with deforestation biodiversity loss is driving an interest more alternatives. In temperate climates, faba beans offer promising, locally sourced option, though their wider adoption limited by amino acid imbalances anti-nutritional factors. Grain preservation another critical consideration, post-harvest losses fungal contamination compromise feed quality animal health. Organic has emerged energy-efficient, cost-effective alternative to industrial drying, improving storage stability reducing fossil fuel dependence. Additional nutritional strategies, including dietary crude reduction, carbohydrate source modification, additive inclusion, maternal interventions, can enhance nutrient utilisation, intestinal health, herd resilience while mitigating impact. This review explores practical feed-based strategies support sustainable, resilient, resource-efficient contribute security.

Language: Английский

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