In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …

Environmental and socio-economic changes are leading to increased levels of land
abandonment worldwide. The assembly of plant communities on old fields has informed …

We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought
index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth: vegetation indices from …

Land use change is the result of interactions between processes operating at different
scales. Simulation models at regional to global scales are often incapable of including …

In the last decades, due to climate changes, soil deterioration, and Land Use/Land Cover
Changes (LULCCs), land degradation risk has become one of the most important ecological …

Agricultural practices have proven to be unsuitable in many cases, causing considerable
reductions in soil quality. Land management practices can provide solutions to this problem …

Secondary succession studies have mainly focused on plants, but little is known about the
fate of soil microbial communities and their relationship with plant succession after …

Unraveling the succession of microbial communities is a core ecological research topic. Yet
few studies have focused on how long-term secondary succession affects the functional …

Soil losses were calculated in a rural watershed where environmental land use conflicts
developed in the course of a progressive invasion of forest and pasture/forest lands by …

Abstract In Mediterranean France, land abandonment is a widespread change. To
understand and predict the land abandonment process and its consequences, land cover …