Grasslands store about 34% of the global terrestrial carbon (C) and are vital for the provision
of various ecosystem services such as forage and climate regulation. About 89% of this …

Mountainous rangelands provide key ecosystem goods and services, particularly for human
benefit. In spite of these benefits, mountain grasslands are undergoing extensive land-cover …

Estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) is very useful for accurate monitoring of carbon
sequestration. However, there are still significant gaps in the knowledge of SOC reserves in …

Despite the exponential increase in human population at global scale, some rural areas
have experienced a progressive abandonment over the last decades. Under particular …

Grasslands occupy about 40% of the world's land surface and store approximately 10% of
the global soil organic carbon (SOC) stock. This SOC pool, in which a larger proportion is …

Soil quality assessment is valuable for agricultural production. In this research, 155 soil
samples at two soil depths were collected from four land use types in an agricultural area of …

Mountain regions are known to be especially vulnerable to climatic changes; however,
information on the climate sensitivity of alpine ecosystems is still scarce to date. In this study …

Agricultural abandonment is regarded as a major driver of soil organic carbon (C) dynamics,
but the mechanisms underlying the direction and magnitude of soil C dynamics following …

The aim of this work was to study the sensibility to warming of soil organic matter (SOM)
decomposition in Mediterranean high mountain areas. Thus, we investigated the effects of …

A variety of organisms can colonize microplastic surfaces through biofouling processes.
Heterotrophic bacteria tend to be the focus of plastisphere research; however, the presence …