Continuous rise in application of pesticides in the agro-ecosystems in order to ensure food
supply to the ever-growing population is of greater concern to the human health and the …

Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum, non-selective herbicide used to control weeds and protect
agricultural crops, and it is classified as potentially carcinogenic by the International Agency …

Agriculture is known to commonly cause soil degradation. In the Mediterranean, soil erosion
is widespread due to the millennia-old farming, and new drip-irrigated plantations on slopes …

Chiral herbicides applied to agricultural soils are typically mildly to moderately contaminated
with heavy metals (HMs), necessitating a thorough investigation into their effects on soil HMs …

Understanding management factors driving soil biota is pivotal to improve the sustainability
of cropping systems, especially given the emergence of new cropping systems induced by …

Nowadays, understory vegetation along the tree row is considered a vital source of
agroecosystem services and functional biodiversity improvement in the fruit orchard. Hence …

This work aimed to validate the removal of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in a pilot
system (on-site). Six piles of oil-contaminated soil were treated with 1) bioremediation (BIO) …

Invasive earthworms create widespread ecological changes after they are introduced. Non-
native earthworms are transported mainly through anthropogenically-mediated activities …

Intercropping leguminous green manure (LGM) in orchards provides a sustainable solution
for ecological weed control. LGMs are known to improve soil fertility and productivity in …

Collembolans have been known to be involved in various soil ecosystem functions.
However, the role of Collembola in organic contaminant degradation has not been …