College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Forecasting insect activity by noting plant development and degree days

Published on July 1, 2011
Predict insect activity by watching plant development and checking the accumulation of degree days. Here’s how.

Student Research Position (Dilley Mentorship Fellowship Program)

Employment type: Seasonal
Application Due Date: September 20, 2024

Core Content, Experience and Enlightenment of CSR in the J-League

Published on November 1, 2022
In comparison with European and American countries, the CSR of professional sports in Asian countries is affected by many factors due to differences in management system, social environment, etc. At present, the research on CSR of professional sports...

Estimating the potential of roadside vegetation for bioenergy production. Journal of Cleaner Production

Published on June 25, 2015
The Netherlands, like other European Union countries, is under intense pressure to increase its national share of energy from renewable sources in accordance with 2020 Kyoto Protocol obligations. Bioenergy in this context is especially interesting be...

Citizen participation gaps and challenges in the heating transition: Learning from Dutch community initiatives

Published on January 1, 2024
The European Union has recognized the significance of community energy initiatives in the energy transition and introduced legislation to promote active consumer participation and renewable energy communities. The Netherlands, with its transition awa...

Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of US Physical Geography

Published on March 17, 2021
U.S. geomorphologists and biogeographers often cite early theoretical roots dating back to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exemplars such as Powell, Gilbert, Cowles, and Clements, or earlier European contributors like Hutton, Lyell, von ...

Sustainable Lighting-Retrofit Versus Dedicated Luminaires-Light Versus Power Quality

Published on December 2, 2019
For the next few years millions of fluorescent luminaires will become waste and will be replaced by light-emitting diodes-LED luminaires. According to the Cost European Cooperation in Science & Technology Program, the next step will be shifting from ...

Collaboration or fragmentation? Biodiversity management through the common agricultural policy

Published on May 1, 2017
We argue that the current system of agri-environment management in the European Common Agricultural Policy is ineffective at conserving biodiversity in part because it promotes fragmentation instead of collaboration of actors, thus hindering coordina...

Black truffles grown in eastern U.S. may be less valuable lookalike species

Published on June 21, 2023
Researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Florida, have discovered that truffle producers in the eastern U.S. may be inadvertently cultivating a less flavorful species of truffle.

Michigan Cultivars | Chestnuts

Landscape as Connecting Link of Nature and Culture: Spatial Planning Policy Implications in Greece

Published on January 1, 2019
The research paper investigates the diverse understandings of landscape, along with demonstrating the modes of contribution of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) of the Council of Europe (CE) in influencing national spatial planning systems. The...

Towards a spatial snow climatology for Switzerland: Comparison and validation of existing datasets

Published on January 1, 2024
In the European Alps, surface snow cover is of high relevance and a major factor for environmental, ecological and economical systems. The provision of accurate and timely climatological information on the spatio-temporal distribution of Alpine snow ...

Geoscience for Cities: Delivering Europe's Sustainable Urban Future

Published on March 1, 2024
European Union (EU) policy is clear in its ambition to deliver a sustainable urban future for Europe. In this paper, we consider the role of urban geoscience to help achieve these ambitions. We highlight the relevance of geology to urban subsurface p...

Towards nexus thinking in energy systems modelling: A multi-scale, embodied perspective

Published on April 1, 2024
The European Green Deal aims to decarbonise the EU by 2050. In alignment with that goal, the REPowerEU plan took Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to address the security and sustainability of the EU's energy sector, by increasing energy...

Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry

Published on December 1, 2022
As European mountain forests are a significant world carbon stock and sequester, they have a prominent position in climate policies and climate smart forestry (CSF) implementation. However, forest ecosystem services (ES) that are public or common goo...

Check your asparagus field for aphids

Published on September 14, 2011
Scout now for European asparagus aphids and know how to manage this rare Michigan pest, as severe damage could lead to yield loss next year or even plant death.