AGRICULTURAL USE OF THE SNOWY WATERS: III: AGRICULTURAL ASPECTS

Technological Aspects of Using Agricultural Ontologies

Despite the growing number of ontologies online available, their range of application in real world projects is comparatively limited. This paper describes the construction of an ontology, concerning the horticultural domain of Agriculture, and examine its usage in particular application areas. The proposed ontology is used, (a) as a refine and classification tool facilitating searching process...

Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale.

Compared with nutrient levels and habitat degradation, the importance of agricultural pesticides in surface water may have been underestimated due to a lack of comprehensive quantitative analysis. Increasing pesticide contamination results in decreasing regional aquatic biodiversity, i.e., macroinvertebrate family richness is reduced by ∼30% at pesticide concentrations equaling the legally acce...

III Agricultural data for life cycle assessments

An inventory for Life Cycle Analysis of agricultural products must address questions of representatively and coherence of models. This paper discusses the possibilities of modelling the input and production of typical farms to establish inventories that are consistent with higher level statistical information. Energy use has been modelled for typical Danish farms and compared with the national ...

Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects

Bacterial Pollution of Waters in Pristine and Agricultural Lands

Concentrations of thermotolerant coliform bacteria, presumptive E. coll, and presumptive fecal streptococci were determined from ditches, brooks, and natural ponds in six agricultural areas and 22 uninhabited pristine areas in southern Finland in the summer of 1987. For comparison, the same fecal indicators were enumerated from the effluents of three wastewater t eatment plants. The objective w...