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Mariarosaria Sicignano, Luisa del Piano, Luigi Morra, Tommaso Enotrio, Salvatore Baiano, Antonio Salluzzo, Antonio Merola and Francesco Raimo
The use of peat, the standard substrate used for soilless cultivation of horticultural crops, is becoming of increasing concern as peat is a non-renewable resource and its extraction can degrade wetland ecosystems, creating a strong environmental impact....
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Tiffany A. Aldworth, Michele L. W. Toucher, Alistair D. Clulow and Anthony M. Swemmer
Over the past century, increases in indigenous woody plant species, also known as woody encroachment (WE), has occurred in grasslands and savannas across the globe. While the impact on grassland and savanna composition and productivity has been well stud...
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Marta M. Moreno, Sara González-Mora, Jaime Villena and Carmen Moreno
Organic hydromulches (liquid spray-on mulches) have been used traditionally in land rehabilitation, mainly to mitigate post-fire runoff and erosion. However, in recent years, a new application of these materials as an eco-friendly alternative to the wide...
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Tadeusz Malewski, Piotr Borowik, Ireneusz Olejarski, Artur Rutkiewicz, Adam Okorski and Tomasz Oszako
Afforestation of former agricultural land poses a real challenge for foresters because soil life is often severely limited by the loss of natural soil fungal diversity. In addition, former agricultural soils have low levels of fungal species typical of f...
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Ilias Karmiris, Thomas G. Papachristou and Dimitrios Fotakis
Silvopasture, a traditional agroforestry practice, combines the presence of trees, shrubs, herbage, and livestock in time and space to provide multiple ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being. However, the abandonment of traditional agrofo...
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VA Kemeuze, PM Mapongmetsem, DJ Sonwa, E Fongnzossie, BA Nkongmeneck
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The Mandara Mountain eco-region is one of the most important mountain areas of Cameroon. It is often considered as a refuge for several plant and wildlife species. This area is fragile and vulnerable, and faces severe threats from land use change, unsust...
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Pua Bar Kutiel and Michael Dorman
Since ecological phenomena and patterns vary with scale, scalar analysis is a developing practice in ecology. Scalar analysis is most valuable in heterogeneous environments, since habitat heterogeneity is a key factor in determining biodiversity. One suc...
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Nicole Durfee and Carlos G. Ochoa
The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter the water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems in the Western USA, leading to reduced water availability in these already water-scarce regions. Th...
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Dashuai Zhang, Yao Dai, Lingli Wang and Liang Chen
During rapid urbanization, it is necessary to increase soil permeability and soil porosity for reducing urban runoff and waterlogging risk. Woody plants are known to increase soil porosity and preferential flow in soil via living roots growth and dead ro...
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Filippo Bussotti and Martina Pollastrini
Climate change and extreme drought and heat events impact the Mediterranean evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation in South Europe, especially in Iberian and Italian peninsula, where widespread crown defoliation and dieback have been observed since the 90s ...
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