A5007886857- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Tree-ring climate responses
KU Leuven
2020-2022
Technical University of Crete
2014-2017
Solar power is the third major renewable energy, constituting an increasingly important component of global future—low carbon—energy portfolio. Accurate climate information essential for conditions solar energy production, maximization, and stable regulation planning. Climate change impacts on output projections are thus crucial importance. In this study effect projected changes in irradiance temperature performance photovoltaic systems Greece examined. were obtained from 5 regional models...
Soil water retention (SWR) is an important soil property related to structure, texture, and organic matter (SOM), among other properties. Agricultural management practices affect some of these properties in interdependent way. In this study, the impact management-induced changes carbon (SOC) on SWR evaluated five long-term experiments Europe (running from 8 up 54 years when samples were taken). Topsoil (0–15 cm) collected analysed evaluate effects three different categories, i.e., tillage,...
Salinization is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring worldwide. This study evaluates feasibility operational surface salinity mapping based on state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO) products captured by sensors on-board WorldView-2 (WV2) and Landsat 8 satellites. The proposed methods are tested in Timpaki, south-central Crete,Greece, where brackish water irrigation puts health at risk salinization. In all cases, EO calibrated against samples collected from bare locations....
Abstract Understanding the Mediterranean rangelands degradation trends is a key element of mitigating their vulnerability and enhancing resilience. Climate change its inherent effects on mean temperature precipitation variability can regulate magnitude, frequency duration droughts aridity with profound effect ecosystem productivity. Here we investigate climate to project development vegetation in by (i) estimating relative Standardized Precipitation Index modification United Nations...
Improving or maintaining soil health is crucial to support human needs, with the concept of quality connecting functions and sustainability concerns. In 2019, we assessed chemical, physical biological properties in a long-term crop rotation experiment initiated 1997 at Foulum, Denmark, aim determining effects use cover crops, animal manure, different sequences (with without legume-based ley) organic vs conventional management. The concentration carbon has been relatively stable across all...
Soils form the basis for agricultural production and other ecosystem services, soil management should aim at improving their quality resilience. Within SoilCare project, concept of soil-improving cropping systems (SICS) was developed as a holistic approach to facilitate adoption that is sustainable profitable. SICS selected with stakeholders were monitored evaluated environmental, sociocultural, economic effects determine profitability sustainability. Monitoring results upscaled European...
Soil degradation and desertification pose significant threats to Mediterranean ecosystems. The marginal maquis shrublands of Messara in Crete, Greece, exemplify poor land management under conditions, where overgrazing influences vegetation composition density, leading extensive soil erosion (Daliakopoulos et al., 2017). As ecosystem restoration becomes a global priority, the complete removal livestock revegetation efforts have become common throughout Mediterranean. However, few these...
ABSTRACT Sustainable land management can play an important role in climate change mitigation by reducing soil organic carbon (SOC) losses or even sequestering C soils. This be achieved through practices that increase inputs to the and/or improve quality of these inputs, thereby facilitating removal atmospheric dioxide (CO 2 ) and storing it as SOC. In this study, we investigated potential increased share legumes crop rotations enhance SOC accrual—defined stocks at a given unit compared...
Abstract. Soil salinity management can be complex, expensive, and time demanding, especially in arid semi-arid regions. Besides taking no action, possible strategies include amelioration adaptation measures. Here we apply the World Overview of Conservation Approaches Technologies (WOCAT) framework for systematic analysis evaluation selection soil salinisation technologies close collaboration with stakeholders. The participatory approach is applied RECARE (Preventing Remediating degradation...
Soil compaction (SC) is a major threat for agriculture in Europe that affects many ecosystem functions, such as water and air circulation soils, root growth, crop production. Our objective was to present the results from five short-term (<5 years) case studies located along north–south east–west gradients conducted within SoilCare project using soil-improving cropping systems (SICSs) mitigating topsoil subsoil SC. Two study sites (SSs) focused on natural (˃25 cm) subsoiling tillage...
In this study, the distributed catchment-scale model, DiCaSM, was applied on five catchments across UK. Given its importance, river flow selected to study uncertainty in streamflow prediction using Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology at different timescales (daily, monthly, seasonal and annual). The analysis showed that observed flows were within predicted bounds/envelope of 5% 95% percentiles. These bounds contained most flows, as expressed by high containment...
The risk of erosion is particularly high in Mediterranean areas, especially areas that are subject to a not so effective agricultural management–or with some omissions–, land abandonment or wildfires. Soils on Crete under imminent threat desertification, characterized by loss vegetation, water erosion, and subsequently, soil. Several large-scale studies have estimated average soil the island between 6 8 Mg/ha/year, but more localized investigations assess losses one order magnitude higher....
Assessing agricultural sustainability is one of the most challenging tasks related to expertise and support methodologies because it entails multidisciplinary aspects builds on cultural value-based elements. Thus, should be considered a social concept, reliable enough decision makers policy development in broad context. The aim this manuscript was develop methodology for assessment soil improving cropping systems (SICS) Europe. For purpose, tree based weights (%) chosen allows more...
Abstract. Inversion tillage is a commonly applied soil cultivation practice in Europe, which often has been blamed for deteriorating topsoil stability and organic carbon (OC) content. In this study, the potential to reverse these negative effects by alternative agricultural management practices are evaluated seven long-term experiments (running from 8 54 years moment of sampling) five European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy UK). Topsoil samples (0–15 cm) were collected...
Abstract Iron (Fe) colloids dominate the soil solution Fe and these potentially act as vectors for nutrients contaminants in soil. The question remains which factors, that is, gradients chemical characteristics with depth or physical processes, cause vertical mobilisation immobilisation of soils. This was addressed by characterising change concentration, size composition a podzol profile relating changes to properties along profile. Pore waters were analysed Flow Field Fractionation...
Abstract. Soil salinity management can be complex, expensive and time demanding, especially in arid semi-arid regions. Besides taking no action, possible strategies include amelioration adaptation measures. Here we use the World Overview of Conservation Approaches Technologies (WOCAT) framework for systematic analysis evaluation soil salinisation technologies close collaboration with stakeholders. The participatory approach is applied RECARE Project Case Study Timpaki, a region south-central...
Abstract. Inversion tillage is a commonly applied soil cultivation practice in Europe, which though has been blamed for deteriorating topsoil stability and organic carbon (OC) content. In this study, the potential to reverse these negative effects by alternative agricultural management practices are evaluated five long-term experiments (running from 8 54 years moment of sampling) Europe. Topsoil samples (0–15 cm) were collected analysed evaluate conservation (reduced no-tillage) or increased...
first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Size: Aa Line Spacing: Column Width: Background: Open AccessAbstract Soil Water Balance and Vegetation Dynamics in a Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystem † by Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos 1,*, Ioanna Panagea 2, Luca Brocca 3 Erik van den Elsen 4 1 Department of Agriculture, Hellenic University, 71410 Crete, Greece 2 Division Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium Research Institute for...
Agricultural cropping systems and experiments include complex interactions of processes various management practices and/or treatments under a wide range environmental climatic conditions. The use standardized formats to monitor document these can help researchers stakeholders efficiently exchange data, promote interdisciplinary collaborations, simplify modelling analysis procedures. In the scope SoilCare Horizon 2020 project monitoring assessment work package, an integrated scheme collect,...