The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and
resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …

Mediterranean agriculture has coevolved with harsh environments and changing climate
conditions over millennia, generating an extremely rich heritage of traditional knowledge; …

Land use/land cover (LULC) change has greatly altered ecosystem carbon storage capacity
and can eventually profoundly impact global climate change. Characterizing the LULC …

Agroforestry is a sustainable land use system with a promising potential to sequester
atmospheric carbon into soil. This system of land use distinguishes itself from the other …

Globally, grazing exclusion (GE) is an effective management practice to restore degraded
grasslands and improve carbon (C) stock. However, the C dynamics in grasslands …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a critical indicator for healthy and fertile lands across the world.
It is also the planet's largest terrestrial carbon pool, so any changes of this pool may have …

Change in land-use management practices such as cultivation of steep slopes, overgrazing,
and no or limited fallow periods, and slope position affects the quality of soils. As a result …

Soil organic matter is a heterogeneous and complex entity that consists of a diverse range of
compounds. However, the responses of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions with different …

Land use change featured by rapid urban expansion and the loss of forests and grasslands
can lead to substantial carbon emissions that contribute to greenhouse heating. We propose …

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 …