• Optimization of Water-Energy-Food Nexus considering CO2 emissions from cropland: A case study in northwest Iran 

      Saray, Marzieh Hasanzadeh; Baubekova, Aziza; Gohari, Alireza; Eslamian, Seyed Saeid; Kløve, Bjørn; Haghighi, Ali Torabi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-13)
      Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus and CO2 emissions for a farm in northwest Iran were analyzed to provide data support for decision-makers formulating national strategies in response to climate change. In the analysis, ...
    • Orchard Planting Density and Tree Development Stage Affects Physiological Processes of Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) Tree 

      Laužike, Kristina; Uselis, Nobertas; Kviklys, Darius; Samuoliene, Giedre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-04)
      One of the most important factors affecting photosynthesis and metabolism is light absorbance by leaves and penetration through the canopy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of planting density and tree ...
    • ORCHIDEE-PEAT (revision 4596), a model for northern peatland CO2, water, and energy fluxes on daily to annual scales 

      Qiu, Chunjing; Zhu, Dan; Ciais, Philippe; Guenet, Bertrand; Krinner, Gerhard; Peng, Shushi; Aurela, Mika; Bernhofer, Christian; Brümmer, Christian; Bret-Harte, Syndonia; Chu, Housen; Chen, Jiquan; Desai, Ankur R.; Dušek, Jiří; Euskirchen, Eugénie S.; Fortuniak, Krzysztof; Flanagan, Lawrence B.; Friborg, Thomas; Grygoruk, Mateusz; Gogo, Sébastien; Grünwald, Thomas; Hansen, Birger U.; Holl, David; Humphreys, Elyn; Hurkuck, Miriam; Kiely, Gerard; Klatt, Janina; Kutzbach, Lars; Largeron, Chloé; Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima; Lund, Magnus; Lafleur, Peter M.; Li, Xuefei; Mammarella, Ivan; Merbold, Lutz; Nilsson, Mats B.; Olejnik, Janusz; Ottosson-Löfvenius, Mikaell; Oechel, Walter C.; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Peichl, Matthias; Pirk, Norbert; Peltola, Olli; Pawlak, Włodzimierz; Rasse, Daniel; Rinne, Janne; Shaver, Gaius R.; Schmid, Hans Peter; Sottocornola, Matteo; Steinbrecher, Rainer; Sachs, Torsten; Urbaniak, Marek; Zona, Donatella; Ziemblinska, Klaudia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-05)
      Peatlands store substantial amounts of carbon and are vulnerable to climate change. We present a modified version of the Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems (ORCHIDEE) land surface model for simulating ...
    • Organic Waste-Based Fertilizer in Hydroponics Increases Tomato Fruit Size but Reduces Fruit Quality 

      Kechasov, Dmitry; Verheul, Michel; Paponov, Martina; Panosyan, Anush; Paponov, Ivan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-23)
      In regions with intensive agricultural production, large amounts of organic waste are produced by livestock animals. Liquid digestate from manure-based biogas production could potentially serve as fertilizer if integrated ...
    • The origin of the Legumes is a complex paleopolyploid phylogenomic tangle closely associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event 

      Koenen, Erik J. M.; Alayon, Dario Isidro Ojeda; Bakker, Freek T.; Wieringa, Jan J.; Kidner, Catherine; Hardy, Olivier J.; Pennington, R. Toby; Herendeen, Patrick S.; Bruneau, Anne; Hughes, Colin E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08-31)
      The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary turnover of plant lineages at the KPB is central ...
    • An Overview of Microbial Source Tracking Using Host-Specific Genetic Markers to Identify Origins of Fecal Contamination in Different Water Environments 

      Paruch, Lisa; Paruch, Adam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-06-04)
      Fecal contamination of water constitutes a serious health risk to humans and environmental ecosystems. This is mainly due to the fact that fecal material carries a variety of enteropathogens, which can enter and circulate ...
    • Oxalate found in wood cell wall during incipient brown rot degradation 

      Füchtner, Sophie; Alfredsen, Gry; Thygesen, Lisbeth G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-11-21)
      Brown rot fungi are a marvel and an enigma of Nature. They are capable of depolymerizing holocellulose within wood cell walls without significantly ineralizing lignin. The exact details behind this feat remain unknown, but ...
    • Parallel Microbial Ecology of Pasteuria and Nematode Species in Scottish Soils 

      Orr, Jamie N.; Neilson, Roy; Freitag, Thomas E.; Roberts, David M.; Davies, Keith; Blok, Vivian C.; Cock, Peter J. A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-28)
      Pasteuria spp. are endospore forming bacteria which act as natural antagonists to many of the most economically significant plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs). Highly species-specific nematode suppression may be observed in ...
    • A parametric analysis of eco-efficiency and its determinants: Evidence from Norwegian dairy farms 

      Alem, Habtamu (Peer reviewed, 2023-07-25)
      This study aims to estimate eco-efficiency scores and identify determinants of Norwegian dairy farms using a parametric approach that accounts for methane emissions. The study incorporates an environmental output measure ...
    • Parasitoids indicate major climate-induced shifts in arctic communities 

      Kankaanpää, Tuomas; Vesterinen, Eero; Hardwick, Bess; Schmidt, Niels M.; Andersson, Tommi; Aspholm, Paul E.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Beckers, Niklas; Bêty, Joël; Birkemoe, Tone; DeSiervo, Melissa; Drotos, Katherine H.I.; Ehrich, Dorothee; Gilg, Olivier; Gilg, Vladimir; Hein, Nils; Høye, Toke T.; Jakobsen, Kristian M.; Jodouin, Camille; Jorna, Jesse; Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Kresse, Jean-Claude; Leandri-Breton, Don-Jean; Lecomte, Nicolas; Loonen, Maarten; Marr, Philipp; Monckton, Spencer K.; Olsen, Maia; Otis, Josée-Anne; Pyle, Michelle; Roos, Ruben Erik; Raundrup, Katrine; Rozhkova, Daria; Sabard, Brigitte; Sokolov, Aleksandr; Sokolova, Natalia; Solecki, Anna M.; Urbanowicz, Christine; Villeneuve, Catherine; Vyguzova, Evgenya; Zverev, Vitali; Roslin, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-11)
      Climatic impacts are especially pronounced in the Arctic, which as a region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe. Here, we investigate how mean climatic conditions and rates of climatic change impact parasitoid ...
    • Pathogenicity, host specificity and genetic diversity in Norwegian isolates of Microdochium nivale and Microdochium majus 

      Abdelhalim, Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed; Brurberg, May Bente; Hofgaard, Ingerd Skow; Rognli, Odd Arne; Tronsmo, Anne Marte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-31)
      Microdochium majus and Microdochium nivale cause serious disease problems in grasses and cereal crops in the temperate regions. Both fungi can infect the plants during winter (causing pink snow mould) as well as under cool ...
    • Patterns and roles of lignan and terpenoid accumulation in the reaction zone compartmentalizing pathogen-infected heartwood of Norway spruce 

      Nagy, Nina Elisabeth; Norli, Hans Ragnar; Fongen, Monica; Østby, Runa Berg; Heldal, Inger; Davik, Jahn; Hietala, Ari Mikko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-10)
      Tree defense against xylem pathogens involves both constitutive and induced phenylpropanoids and terpenoids. The induced defenses include compartmentalization of compromised wood with a reaction zone (RZ) characterized by ...
    • Patterns of Carbon Sequestration in a Young Forest Ecosystem after Clear-Cutting 

      Rebane, Sille; Jõgiste, Kalev; Kiviste, Andres; Stanturf, John A.; Metslaid, Marek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-21)
      A large area of Estonian hemiboreal forest is recovering from clear-cut harvesting and changing carbon (C) balance of the stands. However, there is a lack of information about C- source/sink relationships during recovery ...
    • Patterns of Microbiome Variation Among Infrapopulations of Permanent Bloodsucking Parasites 

      Doña, Jorge; Herrera, Stephany Virrueta; Nyman, Tommi; Kunnasranta, Mervi; Johnson, Kevin P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-16)
      While interspecific variation in microbiome composition can often be readily explained by factors such as host species identity, there is still limited knowledge of how microbiomes vary at scales lower than the species ...
    • Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives 

      Van Looy, Kris; Bouma, Johan; Herbst, Michael; Koestel, John; Minasny, Budiman; Mishra, Umakant; Montzka, Carsten; Nemes, Attila; Pachepsky, Yakov A.; Padarian, José; Schaap, Marcel G.; Tóth, Brigitta; Verhoef, Anne; Vanderborght, Jan; van der Ploeg, Martine J.; Weihermüller, Lutz; Zacharias, Steffen; Zhang, Yonggen; Vereecken, Harry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-14)
      Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth’s ecosystems and provides multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to complex knowledge rules that relate available ...
    • Perceived effects of climate policy on rural areas and agriculture: A rural-urban divide 

      Mittenzwei, Klaus; Gustavsen, Geir Wæhler; Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Bjørkhaug, Hilde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-04-03)
      Climate policies may have adverse geographically unequal socio-economic impacts that, if left unaddressed, may hamper their implementation. This paper examines factors explaining rural-urban perceptions of the effects of ...
    • Performance and Phenotypic Stability of Norway Spruce Provenances, Families, and Clones Growing under Diverse Climatic Conditions in Four Nordic Countries 

      Skrøppa, Tore; Steffenrem, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-17)
      Genetic variation and phenotypic stability in Norway spruce were studied based on provenances, families, and clones planted in trials at 12 sites in four Nordic countries. The families were generated in a factorial cross ...
    • Performance of Sweet Cherry Cultivars and Advanced Selections on Gisela 5 Rootstock in Young Orchards 

      Lanauskas, Juozas; Kviklys, Darius; Uselis, Nobertas; Stanys, Vidmantas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01-30)
      Six sweet cherry cultivars and two advanced selections of Gisela 5 rootstock were tested in 2015–2021 at the Institute of Horticulture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry. Fruit trees were planted at ...
    • Performance of the Endemic Alpine Herb Primula scandinavica in a Changing European Mountain Landscape 

      Wehn, Sølvi; Olsson, E. Gunilla A (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08)
      This paper reports on the performance of the red-listed Primula scandinavica, endemic to Scandinavia. The study took place in Jotunheimen, Norway. We evaluated occurrence, density and sexual reproduction variables (number ...
    • Performance of the Norwegian dairy farms: A dynamic stochastic approach 

      Alem, Habtamu (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08-07)
      From a theoretical perspective, it is well stated that the farm's decision on the use of inputs depends on the farmer's ability to make an efficient decision over time. The existing literature in performance analysis of ...