The hydraulic press was patented by Bramah in 1795. Initially, it used for keeping paper flat or pressing maps, but, 1833, Montilla (Córdoba, Spain), the machine properly adapted Diego de Alvear to produce olive oil. It an extraordinary technological advance oil sector, not only Spain but also other countries of Mediterranean Basin, because made possible better less time. aim this article is an...

Strategies for waste valorisation from domestic and agro-industrial activities must be pursued, its use as a soil amendment is an interesting possibility. In this four-year study, the effect of applying municipal solid (MSW), farmyard manure (FYM), bottom wood ash supplemented with nitrogen (Ash + N), inorganic fertilization common in region (50 kg ha−1 N, P2O5 K2O) (Control) 70 N (High N) was ...

No-tillage and soil mulching with pruning residues, applied in olive groves of the semi-arid Mediterranean environment, as erosion control practices still practice not fully studied. This study has evaluated saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat), surface runoff (SR) (SL) under rainfall at plot scale throughout two years four different management practices, total cover a net (SP), mechanical t...

Olive oil mill wastewaters (OOMW) represent a significant environmental problem especially in the Mediterranean, the main olive oil production region in the world. Characterization of OOMW is carried out by determination of various parameters, such as BOD5, COD and content of total phenols. The aim of this paper is to evaluate existing (physical, biological etc.) and emerging technologies for a...

We examined recruitment, survival, life cycle and fecundity of two metallicolous (M, on metalliferous calamine soils) and two non-metallicolous (NM, on normal soils) populations of Thlaspi caerulescens in Belgium and Luxemburg. In each population, permanent plots were monitored over two reproductive seasons. In M populations, plots were located in two contrasting environments (grass versus grov...

This paper deals with the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) techniques and high resolution photogrammetry to study the evolution of a landslide affecting olive groves. The last decade has seen an extensive use of UAV, a technology in clear progression in many environmental applications like landslide research. The methodology starts with the execution of UAV flights to acquire very ...

The impact of agricultural practices and soil management on the communities of arthropods living in the agricultural landscape is acknowledged as a critical issue by the literature, and it needs to be better investigated to improve the ecological sustainability of agriculture. In the present study, we aimed to study how soil management affect carabid species distribution in one of the most typi...

Under certain conditions, olive trees grown on calcareous soils suffer from iron chlorosis. In the present study several olive varieties and scion-rootstock combinations were evaluated for their tolerance to iron chlorosis. Plants were grown over several months in pots with a calcareous soil, under two fertilization treatments. These consisted of periodic applications of nutrient solutions cont...

the impact of de-oiled and dried two-phase olive mill waste (dw) amendment on the sorption,degradation, leaching, and persistence of the herbicide terbuthylazine in a mediterranean agricultural soil were studied under laboratory and long-term field conditions. the results are compared with those of a previous study, where the intermediary by-product of the olive-oil processing technology (ow) w...