Land desertification poses a significant challenge in the Brazilian semiarid region,
encompassing a substantial portion of the country. Within this region, the detrimental effects …

Background Land degradation and climate change pose serious threats to global
biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. The key role of plant diversity in resisting …

Abstract The Brazilian drylands (Caatinga biome) are facing accelerated soil desertification
due to human activities (eg, overgrazing). However, restoration practices (eg, grazing …

Land degradation has emerged as a significantly pressing environmental concern,
contributing to the decline of soil properties in both arid and semiarid regions. Despite this …

There has been widespread application of grazing exclusion in soil conservation,
particularly in semiarid regions. However, it is unclear how grazing exclusion reduces the …

Hot deserts impose extreme conditions on plants growing in arid soils. Deserts are
expanding due to climate change, thereby increasing the vulnerability of ecosystems and …

Soil desertification poses a critical ecological challenge in arid and semiarid climates
worldwide, leading to decreased soil productivity due to the disruption of essential microbial …

Fencing for grazing exclusion is regarded as a traditional and effective method for the
natural restoration of degraded alpine steppe, and it effectively promotes plant growth and …

Introduction The lack of systematic investigations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
community composition is an obstacle to AMF biotechnological applications in antimony …

Gneisses are rocks formed by metamorphism and their resistance to weathering plays an
important role in the physical and chemical properties of soils in tropical drylands. In this …