Soil water repellency (SWR) is a widespread phenomenon that influences patterns of soil
wetting, runoff, evapotranspiration and availability of water for plants. In natural ecosystems …

Soil water repellency (SWR) is a widespread natural phenomenon that results from a
complex interplay between the hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and …

This paper examines whether eastern Tigray is still in a phase of land degradation or if a
trend of landscape greening has started. Hitherto, the land cover in five representative …

Over the last decades, the establishment of new fast‐growing forest plantations has been
prospering. Although the European continent has the lowest share worldwide of forest …

Forest fires are a recurrent phenomenon in Mediterranean forests, with impacts for human
landscapes and communities, which must be understood before they can be managed. This …

Mediterranean areas are characterized by a strong spatial variability that makes the soil
hydrological response highly complex. Moreover, Mediterranean climate has marked …

Soil moisture plays a key role in vegetation restoration and ecosystem stability in arid and
semiarid regions. The response of soil moisture to rainfall pulses is an important …

Soil water repellency (SWR) is a dynamic property of soil that depends on a variety of
factors. The warming of the climate and more frequent occurrence of droughts can both …

Preferential flow is expected to provide preferential channels for plant root growth and
variations in soil water flow, but few studies were conducted to imply the impacts of these …

Mediterranean landscapes have experienced extensive abandonment and reforestation in
recent decades, which should have improved the provision of hydrological services such as …