Use this form to register as a participant to ELI-Day, the second edition of the institute-wide conference where researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to present their work and share it with other ELI members.

Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and represent a significant CO2 sink. Maintaining this function requires a large and sutained availability of nitrogen (N). As a result, understanding N cycling is crucial for the assessment of future productivity of tropical forest ecosystems.

Invasive pest infestations have important impacts on agricultural yields and are projected to increase in the face of global warming. This study investigates the effects of encouraging individual and collective pest management practices on crop losses.

The importance of the Arctic sea ice initial conditions for predicting atmospheric and oceanographic processes is assessed within a perfect model experiment framework. To do so, we used model outputs from EC-Earth3 and HadGEM3 – two General Circulation Models (GMCs) – as true reference states. Long-term control runs were generated with both models based on present-day forcing.

  The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the biggest reservoir of fresh water on Earth, that represents a potential 57 meters sea-level rise if the entire Ice Sheet melted. Therefore, any changes in its mass has a large impact on the global sea-level. During the 20th century, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has gained mass at its surface through an enhanced snow accumulation.

On the 26th of April, experts on water from the seven universities of Circle U. come together for a scientific symposium.

The production of forest-risk commodities, such as palm oil, soy, beef and timber drive global forest loss. To reduce deforestation risks across supply chains, more than 500 companies have adopted zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs).

  Although the use of bacteria belonging to the genus Bacillus is a promising sustainable alternative in crop protection. Many questions remain on their modes of action in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. This work aims to evaluate and characterize the modes of action of the biocontrol agent B. subtilis 30B-B6 against early and late blight diseases on Solanaceae.

Teams

Séminaire GRICE (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la crise écologique) : « L’usage des sols pour l’agriculture et l’élevage dans la crise de la biodiversité » Prof. Nicolas Vereecken, Agroecology Lab, ULB - "Pesticides, climat, utilisation du sol et l’Armaggedon des insectes pollinisateurs : comment sortir de l’impasse ?" Dr.