Sustainability and functioning of silvopastoral ecosystems are being threatened by the
forecasted warmer and drier environments in the Mediterranean region. Scattered trees of …

Dew, as an important contribution of non-rainfall water (NRW), plays a vital role in
ecosystem processes in arid and semi-arid regions and is expected to be affected by climate …

Mediterranean forests face an intensification of droughts caused by ongoing climate change.
To improve our understanding of tree and forest responses to increasing drought, we …

Major global change factors, including carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization, warming, change
in precipitation, nitrogen deposition, and land-use change have the potential to significantly …

Climate warming and nitrogen (N) deposition are expected to increase in the coming
decades. The consequences of the interaction between warming and N deposition on forest …

Background Countries have long been making efforts by reducing greenhouse-gas
emissions to mitigate climate change. In the agreements of the United Nations Framework …

Grassland models often yield more uncertain outputs than arable crop models due to more
complex interactions and the largely undocumented sensitivity of grassland models to …

The hispid hare, an endangered elusive mammal that dwells in the tall grasslands of the
Himalayan foothills across in Nepal, India, and Bhutan is facing severe threats from …

There are major gaps in our understanding of how Mediterranean ecosystems will respond
to anticipated changes in precipitation. In particular, limited data exists on the response of …

Methods We conducted a three-year (2018–2020) in-situ experiment under four grazing
intensities: no grazing, light grazing, moderate grazing, and heavy grazing. Plant community …