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Ewa M. Furmanczyk, Eligio Malusà, Dawid Kozacki and Malgorzata Tartanus
The impact of living mulches established with three officinal plants (Alchemilla vulgaris, Fragaria vesca and Mentha x piperita) on the soil bacterial microbiome and activity, the nematodes population, and the nutrient status of an organic apple orchard ...
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Emanuele Somma, Antonio Terlizzi, Maria Costantini, Madalena Madeira and Valerio Zupo
The successions of benthic communities over time are strongly influenced by the first colonizers, because surface associations are facilitated by modifications to the adhesive properties promoted by primary colonizers, such as bacteria, protozoans, diato...
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Maria Rita Palombo
Extinction of species has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of our planet, but it was generally outweighed in the course of quite a long geological time by the appearance of new species, except, especially, for the five geologically short times ...
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Erika Betzabeth Palafox-Juárez, Jorge Omar López-Martínez, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni and Héctor Hernández-Nuñez
Climate change has severe consequences on ecosystem processes, as well as on people?s quality of life. It has been suggested that the loss of vegetation cover increases the land surface temperature (LST) due to modifications in biogeochemical patterns, g...
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Juan Soria, Gema Caniego, Nuria Hernández-Sáez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Gomez and Manuel Erena
The Mar Menor is a Spanish coastal lagoon of great ecological and economic interest. The agricultural and tourist activities developed in the surroundings of the lagoon, together with the modifications in its channels of connection with the Mediterranean...
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Jesie Silva, Lizebel Morante, Tesfamichael Demeke, Jacqueline Baah-Twum and Abel E. Navarro
The prevalence of antibiotics in water creates microbial resistance and has a negative impact on the ecosystem. Biomaterials such as spent tea leaves are rich in functional groups and are suitable for chemical modification for diverse applications. This ...
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Chelsea C. Clifford and James B. Heffernan
As humans increasingly alter the surface geomorphology of the Earth, a multitude of artificial aquatic systems have appeared, both deliberately and accidentally. Human modifications to the hydroscape range from alteration of existing waterbodies to const...
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Elizabeth A. Samson, Kenneth G. Boykin, William G. Kepner, Mark C. Andersen and Alexander Fernald
The effects of future land use change on arid and semi-arid watersheds in the American Southwest have important management implications. Seamless, national-scale land-use-change scenarios for developed land were acquired from the US Environmental Protect...
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Sergio Marconi, Tommaso Chiti, Angelo Nolè, Riccardo Valentini and Alessio Collalti
Understanding the dynamics of organic carbon mineralization is fundamental in forecasting biosphere to atmosphere net carbon ecosystem exchange (NEE). With this perspective, we developed 3D-CMCC-PSM, a new version of the hybrid process based model 3D-CMC...
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Sujay S. Kaushal, Arthur J. Gold and Paul M. Mayer
Land use and climate change can accelerate the depletion of freshwater resources that support humans and ecosystem services on a global scale. Here, we briefly review studies from around the world, and highlight those in this special issue. We identify s...
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