ENVIRONMENTISLIFE.COM

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environmentislife.com has 3 NS records, 1 A records, 0 AAAA records, 0 MX records, and 0 TXT records. Name servers for environmentislife.com are ns2-edge.uliege.be, ns1-edge.uliege.be, ddi.uliege.be. A records for environmentislife.com are 139.165.57.26. We have observed environmentislife.com to have 1 subdomains. A subdomain count of 1 is considered a small digital footprint. The domain's primary website is hosted on a Apache web server at 139.165.57.26 in Belgium. The website's description is: "studies conducted within environment is life focus on the evolution of the interactions between water, soil, plant, ecosystems and atmosphere in relation to environmental factors, under the effect of biotic and abiotic stresses (climate change). icos station lonzée t he effects of climate change are studied on soil physico-chemical properties, agricultural production and biological diversity, taking into account the complexity of the interactions involved and, in particular, allelopathy mechanisms. particular attention is paid to the soil, where the organic and mineral phases evolve interdependently with living organisms. soil plays an essential role as a biological, physical and chemical reactor, at the interface of the different environmental spheres (atmos-, bio-, hydro- and geo-spheres). atmospheric plant interactions are also studied at cell, leaf, plant or ecosystem scales. at the first three scales, the studies aim to characterize the impact of biotic and abiotic stresses on plants. in the fourth, the objective is to quantify and understand the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the dynamics of climate change. the care environment is life has two tools to achieve these results: the ecotron and two stations of the icos (integrated carbon observation system) ecosystem observatory network, located in lonzée and dorinne. ecotron the ecotron is a model for studying ecosystems, including soils, plants, animals and micro-organisms, designed to reproduce the real world in a simplified way. such equipment makes it possible to combine different environmental variables according to a defined time cycle, while avoiding undesired variability. on a technical and operational level, the ecotron consists of large chambers, offering the possibility of studying the behaviour of agro-ecosystems (lysimeter 1.63 m in diameter and 1.5 m deep, or 3 m³). the regulated variables are light (spectrum, intensity, photoperiod), air (temperature, humidity), rainfall, wind, carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations and boundary conditions at the base of the lysimeter. an original feature of terra's ecotron is its ability to continuously measure a set of ecosystem variables to characterize energy and nutrient flows. this will be done using either commercial sensors (soil water sensors, gas analysers, etc.) or experimental devices developed in various departments (continuous measurement of plant growth, etc.). the icos terrestrial observatory network the lonzée and dorinne icos stations are part of a network of terrestrial observatories whose goal is to continuously measure, at the ecosystem scale, the exchange of trace gases between ecosystems and the atmosphere. these measurements allow a follow-up of the dynamics of these flows on daily, seasonal and interannual scales. the main gases considered are co2 and water vapor, but the study can be extended to methane, ozone, volatile organic compounds, nitrous oxide, isotopic compounds, etc. this network is part of a european infrastructure project (icos) whose objectives are, in particular, to establish and maintain an integrated infrastructure for long-term observation of co2 and greenhouse gases on a global scale and to determine the fluxes of these gases from observations and to link them to emission processes. the lonzée observatory is located on a site of large-scale crops with a four-year rotation and the dorinne observatory is located on a meadow grazed by blanc-beau-belge cattle, the emblematic breed of our walloon livestock. the ecotron and icos infrastructures have a real complementarity. indeed, the results obtained in the ecotron are on a small scale and allow a fine understanding and a quantification of the mechanisms controlling the various interactions. the icos observatories, on the other hand, allow a quantification of these exchanges at the plot scale and allow to reach a more applied dimension and to take into account fluctuating environmental conditions or the effect of anthropic actions. these devices are also complementary to the test plots which are located at an intermediate scale. more information on these two stations and those of the belgian network is available in the following link: https://www.icos-belgium.be/ technical platforms biologie moléculaire (l. willems) mécatronique appliquée aux agrobiosystèmes (b. mercatoris) physique et mécanique des sols (a. degré) bureau environnement et analyses gembloux (p. maesen) [include=cms/c_4151175/]"