Judul: Model Neraca Nitrogen pada Pertanian Indonesia serta Dampak yang Ditimbulkan Tahun 1968 dan 2008
Abstrak: Intensification has been choosen as a main effort of agricultural development in Indonesia. The measure of fertilizer is the main characteristic of intensification within which urea (nitrogen) is the most common fertilizer. This study was conducted to assess the efficiency of nitrogen and nitrogen Past to the environment, to estimate its environmental impacts and to find their mitigation measures of fertilizer application. In order to obtain a comprehensive result, system aproach was used. Secondary data and other sources of reliable information were used. Four inputs entering the system are mineral fertilizer, plant N-fixation, soil bacterial fixation and precipitation. Nitrogen mass-balance models were developed to determine production, efficiency and the nitrogen losses. The result showed the Same trend of the system, increased the the lost and decrease the efficiency around 1968 dan 2008. From the material balance model outputs, it is predicted that around 138 kg-N/ha-year are lost and antering the environment or ecosystem. It is estimated that the future Indonesian agriculture will be more intensive and fertilizer application will increase. Fertilizer impacts are decreasing of nitrogen efficiency, soil organic matters, macroelements and organisms, groundwater contamination and air pollution. To avoid most of the possible adverse effects, some efforts might be made by reduce the use mineral fertilizer, increasing legume, use of azolla and increase the use organic fertilizer (green and animal manure). A recommended that used the future Indonesian agricultural development to Sustain the agricultural production should be optimize input agricultural and minimizing losses.
Keyword: Nitrogen fertilizer, Model, Efficiency, N-loss, agricultureA

Judul: Efisiensi Penggunaan Nitrogen Pada Padi (Oryza sativa L.)
Abstrak: Nitrogen fertilizer in the form of urea has become a staple for farmers, especially in Indonesia. Consequently, applying such large quantities of urea cannot be avoided. The understanding of nutrient-use efficiency on paddy-field is needed to increase plant productivity and reduce environmental pollution because of the utilization of luxury urea fertilizer. The objective of this research was to quantify the nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) on paddy-field. This study was conducted in field and green house. The experiments were carried out in the experimental field at the Indonesian Center For Rice Research (ICRR), Subang-West Java and farmer’s field at Bogor– West Java. The N fertilizer applied in ICRR and farmer field were 225 and 612.25 kg urea/ha, established in experimental plots of about 25 m2. The N fertilizer applied in the green house experiment were 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 kg urea/ha, respectivelly. The result showed that the NUE and N resorption were higher in ICRR than that of in farmer’s field. The green house experiment showed that the NUE and N resorption were higher under 500 kg urea/ha than other treatments. The plant growth, plant biomass, grain yield, NUET, NUEES, ANUE, PNUE dan N resorption were declined with the high availability in nitrogen-pool and increasing in large quantities at certain doses of N fertilizer.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii