Purpose Forests play a critical role in terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling and the mitigation
of global climate change. Intensive forest management and global climate change have had …

Due to greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change, the world climate and its
geographical climate are changing. Due to population growth and increasing industrial and …

The relationships between woody species, soil biota activity and soil quality were largely
ignored in semi-arid areas. This study evaluated the influence of life form and seasonal …

Forest cover creates a specific microclimate by buffering most environmental variables. If the
influence of the overstory on microclimatic variables has been well studied, the role of the …

Aims This research investigated the effects of woody plant identity and season on soil
physicochemical properties and microbiological function in the semi-arid Zagros forest, one …

In many parts of the world, including the semi-arid Mediterranean areas, land abandonment
has led to significant changes in vegetation composition, plant diversity as well as soil …

Zagros woodlands in Iran are threatened by the decline of Persian oak (Quercus brantii)
trees. Although the main cause of tree mortality is drought stress, bacterial pathogens such …

The establishment and development of oak (Quercus spp.) seedlings are frequently
impaired by site heterogeneity resulting from historical anthropogenic disturbances in …

The temporal and spatial dynamics of soil fauna in many terrestrial ecosystems are still not
fully understood, while soil fauna is one of the most critical characteristics in assessing soil …

Few studies in arid and semi-arid regions have focused on the effects of natural and
afforested woody species on the dynamics of soil physicochemical and biological properties …