A review of soil carbon dynamics resulting from agricultural practices

F Abbas, HM Hammad, W Ishaq, AA Farooque… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Literature related to the carbon cycle and climate contains contradictory results with regard
to whether agricultural practices increase or mitigate emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) …

The influence of land abandonment on forest disturbance regimes: a global review

G Mantero, D Morresi, R Marzano, R Motta… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
Context Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive
abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on …

The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water

S Keesstra, S Sannigrahi… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims for clean water and sanitation for
all by 2030, through eight subgoals dealing with four themes:(i) water quantity and …

Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: Opportunities and challenges

JM García-Ruiz, T Lasanta, E Nadal-Romero… - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment and the decline of livestock activity in the Mediterranean mountains
have resulted in dramatic landscape changes, including the generalized expansion of …

Hydro-geomorphological consequences of the abandonment of agricultural terraces in the Mediterranean region: Key controlling factors and landscape stability …

M Moreno-de-las-Heras, F Lindenberger, J Latron… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Traditional cultivation terraces are one of the most ancient and conspicuous agricultural
landscapes in mountain and hilly regions of the Mediterranean basin. Spreading out from …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon sequestration and water yield tradeoffs following restoration of abandoned agricultural lands in Mediterranean mountains

M Khorchani, E Nadal-Romero, T Lasanta… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abandoned cropland areas have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation
through natural revegetation and afforestation programs. These programs increase above …

Computing structural and functional flow and sediment connectivity with a new aggregated index: A case study in a large Mediterranean catchment

M López-Vicente, N Ben-Salem - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrological connectivity in large catchments is influenced by natural and human-induced
heterogeneities and dynamic processes. In this study, a new aggregated index (AIC) based …

Long-term organic farming on a citrus plantation results in soil organic carbon recovery

A Novara, M Pulido, J Rodrigo-Comino… - Cuadernos de …, 2019 - riunet.upv.es
[EN] It has been shown that soil management under organic farming can enhance soil
organic carbon, thereby mitigating atmospheric greenhouse gas increases, but until now …

Assessing land condition as a first step to achieving land degradation neutrality: A case study of the Republic of Srpska

MK Solomun, N Barger, A Cerda, S Keesstra… - … Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is a key voluntary and aspirational target of
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 which urges countries to protect, restore and …

Evaluating sediment connectivity and its effects on sediment reduction in a catchment on the Loess Plateau, China

W Liu, C Shi, Y Ma, Y Wang - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Sediment connectivity is a principal element for revealing sediment yield variations in
catchments. Although several methods for quantifying this element have been tested, there …