Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in
particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …

Subterranean estuaries the, subsurface mixing zones of terrestrial groundwater and
seawater, substantially influence solute fluxes to the oceans. Solutes brought by …

Vegetation gap patterns in arid grasslands, such as the “fairy circles” of Namibia, are one of
nature's greatest mysteries and subject to a lively debate on their origin. They are …

Self-organized complexity at multiple spatial scales is a distinctive characteristic of biological
systems. Yet, little is known about how different self-organizing processes operating at …

Environmental changes can affect the functioning of an ecosystem directly, through the
response of individual life forms, or indirectly, through interspecific interactions and …

The mountainous areas of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula have undergone intense land
abandonment. In this work, we wanted to determine if the abandonment of the rural areas …

Microtopography (MT) can govern runoff dynamics as a net result of local heterogeneities in
the flow paths and ponding. This in turn controls the development of the surface water layer …

Surface depressions are abundant in topographically complex landscapes, and they exert
significant influences on hydrological, ecological, and biogeochemical processes at local …

How the presence of biological soil crusts (BSCs) and physical soil crusts (PSCs) regulates
surface soil hydrological processes in the high-altitude alpine ecosystems is still a pressing …

Using localized studies to understand how ecosystems recover can create uncertainty in
recovery predictions across landscapes. Large archives of remote sensing data offer …