Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem
services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure …

Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain
multiple functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup of nutrient pools …

At present, microplastics (MPs) are a kind of emerging pollutants of concern in the
environment, and have a wide and far‐reaching impact on terrestrial ecosystems. This …

Vegetation degradation, due to climate change and human activities, changes the biomass,
vegetation species composition, and soil nutrient input sources and thus affects soil nutrient …

Saline water is widely used as an alternative water resource for agriculture to overcome the
freshwater shortage in arid and semiarid regions. But long-term using of the saline water for …

There is growing interest in the applications of soil enzymes as early indicators of soil quality
change under contrasting agricultural management practices. However, despite there being …

The potential of near infrared (NIR) reflectance spectroscopy to predict various physical,
chemical and biochemical properties in Mediterranean soils from SE Spain was evaluated …

Within soil aggregates, binding of organic matter is known to occlude it from microbial attack.
Within aggregate fractions of different sizes, microbial communities and activities have also …

Soil salinization is one of the key factors that threatens plant existence worldwide and is a
major challenge to sustain crop production and soil quality. However, there has been limited …