Environmental perturbations such as agricultural intensification may alter soil biodiversity in
a manner that affects ecosystem functioning, but links are not well quantified. With this …

The ever increasing pile-up of electronic waste in dumping sites, especially in developing
countries such as China, Pakistan, India and several African countries, might have caused a …

The consequences of microbial functional diversity loss on key ecosystem processes remain
debatable due to lack of firm evidence from observational or manipulative experiments for a …

Sustainable agriculture in Mediterranean areas is compromised by the structural deficit of
water resources. Under this situation, the impacts of alternative water managements on the …

Intensive management of Eucalyptus plantations has caused several social/environmental
issues, including the concern over transformation of monoculture plantation cutover area …

Water shortage and soil degradation are common environmental stressors encountered in
the Mediterranean area. We evaluated how different soil moisture levels, dependent on …

Intensive forest management practices, such as fertilization, understory removal and deep
tilling, play an important role in improving plant growth in forests through altering nutrient …

Mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and N 2-fixing trees are ecologically beneficial because
they stimulate organic matter cycling and increase carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools in the …

Irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilization rates are widely used to increase crop growth and
yield and promote the sustainable production of the maize crop. However, our …

Farmland mulching is widely used to preserve soil moisture and increase crop yield in the
semiarid region of the Loess Plateau. However, the effect of different farmland mulching on …