Mediterranean Basin ecosystems, their unique biodiversity, and the key services they
provide are currently at risk due to air pollution and climate change, yet only a limited …

Despite the relevance of ecosystem services (ES) to society and modern ecological
research, current methods of measurement and map** remain inconsistent and often lack …

Forging strong links between traits and performance is essential for understanding and
predicting community assembly and dynamics. Functional trait analyses of trees that have …

Understanding the responses of vegetation characteristics and soil properties to grazing
disturbance is useful for grassland ecosystem restoration and management in semiarid …

Recent findings indicate that atmospheric warming increases the persistence of weather
patterns in the mid‐latitudes, resulting in sequences of longer dry and wet periods compared …

The increasing frequency and severity of drought may exacerbate ongoing global
amphibian declines. However, interactions between drought and coincident stressors …

Restoration of degraded grasslands through active revegetation often involves re‐
establishing populations of native grasses, which must withstand increasing drought stress …

Global environmental change can influence ecosystem processes directly or through
changes in the trait composition of natural communities. Traits are individual‐level features …

Dry grasslands of the Northwestern Mediterranean Basin are seminatural species‐rich
ecosystems, composed of many annual species and some structuring perennial species. As …

Both no-tillage and non-inversion tillage systems have been proposed within the context
of'conservation agriculture'as alternatives to conventional tillage for weed management and …