BACKGROUND A functional forest carbon measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) system to support climate change mitigation policies, such as REDD+, requires estimates of forest biomass carbon, as an input to estimate emissions. A combination of field inventory and remote sensing is expected to provide those data. By linking Landsat 8 and forest inventory data, we (1) developed linear mixed e...

In the present work, hydrated biomass of Spirulina platensis has been used for copper removal from aqueous solutions. Biomass has firstly been characterised by potentiometric titration and the overall ionic content evaluated. Copper uptake experiments have been carried out using powdered dry biomass of this cyanobacterium, preliminarily hydrated for increasing time, namely 0, 24, 48, 72 and 96h...

The potential for production of chemicals from microalgal biomass has been considered as an alternative route for CO₂ mitigation and establishment of biorefineries. This study presents the development of consolidated bioprocessing for succinate production from microalgal biomass using engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. Starch-degrading and succinate-producing C. glutamicum strains produced ...

The present study was a part of a long time screening experiment that includeda high number of wheat landraces (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivated in Greece, andfocused on the agronomic point of view and the drought adaptation for some ofthese landraces. One of the most acceptable ways for the assessment of droughtresistance is the examination of yield and yield components in different waterregim...

An accurate estimation of total biomass and its components is critical for understanding the carbon cycle in forest ecosystems. The objectives of this study were to explore the performances of forest canopy structure characterization from a single small-footprint Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) dataset using two different techniques focusing on (i) 3-D canopy structural information by discr...

because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae dunaliella salina. the results of growth and survival, biomass production, individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, fcr and sgr and nutritional value o...

We examine global patterns of benthic macroinvertebrate biomass and its distribution among functional feeding guilds in marine intertidal cOnmlunities. Variation in ash-free dry biomass was related to physical variables (mean annual air and water temperatures, sediment grain size, intertidal slope, tide range and type, wave height and exposure) by least-squares regression analysis of data for 3...