Global climate change has resulted in changes to the earth's geological, ecological, and
biological ecosystems, which pose a severe threat to the existence of human civilization and …

In modern agriculture, climate change, environmental degradation, and natural resource
depletion constitute one of the major potential issues for sustainable crop production and …

Afforestation has been proposed as an effective method of carbon (C) sequestration;
however, the magnitude and direction of soil C and nitrogen (N) dynamics following …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle, and C
sequestration in forest soils can represent a C sink. A relevant question is how does SOC …

Abandonment of agricultural land leads to several consequences for ecosystem functions.
Agricultural abandonment may be a significant and low cost strategy for carbon …

Climate change, environmental pollution and depletion of natural resources are among the
prominent potential challenges for sustainable crop production and environment …

Land use change can have negative or positive effects on soil quality. Our objective was to
assess the effects of land uses changes on the dynamics of selected soil physical and …

Understanding the process of land use/cover changes (LUCC) can provide experience on
the enhancement of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and carbon sequestration potential for …

In Mediterranean areas, through the years, natural forest (NF) areas have suffered land use
change (LUC) mainly for economic reasons. This is the case of olive groves (OG) in …

Since the 1980s, alpine grasslands have been seriously degraded on the Tibetan Plateau.
Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely adopted to restore degraded grasslands. To …