TERRA Teaching and Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre that studies and develops biological engineering in the fields of agri-food, agriculture, biotechnology, environment and forestry. One of the main objectives of TERRA is to develop transversality and exchanges between researchers from different disciplines. The nine research themes that TERRA researchers propose to develop in the next five years are:
- monitoring, impact and adaptation of climate change;
- new approaches to crop protection;
- innovative methods in agricultural production;
- multiscale soil systems;
- development of urban agro-and ecosystems;
- dynamics and changes in forest socio-ecosystems of Central Africa;
- feeding the future;
- innovative processes in biotechnology;
- genetic improvement of agro-biological resources.
Four Research and Teaching Support Units are associated with TERRA:
- Environment is Life: focus on the evolution of interactions between water, soil, plant, ecosystems and atmosphere in relation to environmental factors, under the effect of biotic and abiotic stress (climate change);
- Food is Life: focus on the fractionation and transformation of agro-resources, including fermentation, with a view to developing innovative products and processes;
- Agriculture is Life: offering innovative agricultural production and processing techniques from an agronomic, economic, social and environmental point of view;
- Forest is Life: focus on forest ecosystems and, more generally, landscape structures with a low degree of anthropisation, in both temperate or tropical regions.
The group studies different coastal/marine topics, including:
- body mass variation in seabird during spring migration;
- microbial interactions in seaweeds;
- soil dynamics in coastal dunes;
- functional properties and health benefits of bioactive peptides derived from Spirulina.
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Parent institute: Université de Liège; Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (ULG), more
Address:
Avenue de la Faculté d’Agronomie
B-5030 Gembloux
Belgium
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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 Monticelli, D.; Defourny, H.; Degros, E.; Degros, A. (2021). Body mass during the spring migration period of two long-lived seabirds varies with capture date, age, sex, and natal origin. J. Ornithol. 162(4): 1063-1074. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01903-y, more- Saha, M.; Gilon, P.; Verheggen, F. (2021). Volatile-mediated interactions with surface-associated microbes: a parallelism between phyllosphere of plants and eco-chemosphere of seaweeds. J. Ecol. 109(8): 2823-2831. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13693, more
- de Tombeur, F.; Turner, B.L.; Laliberté, E.; Lambers, H.; Cornelis, J.-T. (2020). Silicon dynamics during 2 million years of soil development in a coastal dune chronosequence under a Mediterranean climate. Ecosystems 23: 1614-1630. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00493-9, more
- Flandroy, L.; Poutahidis, T.; Berg, G.; Clarke, G.; Dao, M.-C.; Decaestecker, E.; Furman, E.; Haahtela, T.; Massart, S.; Plovier, H.; Sanz, Y.; Rook, G. (2018). The impact of human activities and lifestyles on the interlinked microbiota and health of humans and of ecosystems. Sci. Total Environ. 627: 1018-1038. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.288, more
- Ovando, C.A.; de Carvalho, J.C.; Pereira, G.V.M.; Jacques, P.; Soccol, V.T.; Soccol, C.R. (2018). Functional properties and health benefits of bioactive peptides derived from Spirulina: a review. Food Reviews International 34(1): 34-51. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2016.1210632, more
- Vermeire, M.-L.; Cornelis, J.-T.; Van Ranst, E.; Bonneville, S.; Doetterl, S.; Delvaux, B. (2018). Soil microbial populations shift as processes protecting organic matter change during podzolization. Frontiers in Environmental Science 6: 70. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00070, more
- Arroume, N.; Froidevaux, R.; Kapel, R.; Cudennec, B.; Ravallec, R.; Flahaut, C.; Bazinet, L.; Jacques, P.; Dhulster, P. (2016). Food peptides: purification, identification and role in the metabolism. Current Opinion in Food Science 7: 101-107. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cofs.2016.02.005, more
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