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After 15 years since trees were planted, afforestation added \u223c50% more C to the initial ecosystem carbon pool, with annual sequestration rate ranging 0.5\u20133.3\u00a0Mg\u00a0C\u00a0ha \u22121  year \u22121 . Carbon gains in afforested stands were higher above than below-ground (150% vs. 32%). Root biomass differences (374% more in afforested vs. grazed stands,     p  =  0.0  0  1  1    ) explained below-ground carbon contrasts whereas soil organic carbon showed no differences with afforestation. By contrast, grazing exclosures did not result in significant changes in the total carbon storage in comparison with the adjacent grazed stands (    p  =  0.4  2    ) suggesting a slow ecosystem recovery in the time frame of this study (\u223c15 years of exclusion). Nevertheless, higher litter amount was found in the former (+53%,     p  =  0.0  7    ). Neither, soil organic carbon nor root carbon showed significant differences between grazed and non-grazed conditions. Considering that more than 1.1 millions of hectares of the studied ecosystems are highly degraded and suitable for tree planting, afforesting this area could result in a carbon sequestration rate of 1.7\u00a0Tg C year \u22121 , almost 6% of the current fossil fuel emissions of Argentina; however environmental consequences which could emerge from this deep land use shift must be taken into account when afforestation program are being designed.", "keywords": ["Argentina", "Drylands", "Ecosystem carbon pool", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Grazing", "Afforestation", "13. 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Net effects result from the combination of direct impacts of grazing on biogeochemical characteristics of microsites with indirect effects on relative cover of vegetated and unvegetated microsites. Within five independent areas, we sampled surface soils in sites subjected to three grazing intensities: (1) ungrazed sites inside grazing exclosures, (2) moderately grazed sites adjacent to them, and (3) intensely grazed sites within the same paddock. Grazing significantly reduced soil C and N pools, although this pattern was clearest in intensely grazed sites. This net effect was due to the combination of a direct reduction of soil N content in bare soil patches, and indirect effects mediated by the increase of the cover of bare soil microsites, with lower C and N content than either grass or shrub microsites. This increase in bare soil cover was accompanied by a reduction in cover of preferred grass species and standing dead material. Finally, stable isotope signatures varied significantly among grazed and ungrazed sites, with \u03b415N and \u03b413C significantly depleted in intensely grazed sites, suggesting reduced mineralization with increased grazing intensity. In the Patagonian steppe, grazing appears to exert a negative effect on soil C and N cycles; sound management practices must incorporate the importance of species shifts within life form, and the critical role of standing dead material in maintaining soil C and N stocks and biogeochemical processes.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "ARGENTINA", "SEMIARID ECOSYSTEMS", "STABLE ISOTOPES", "DESERTIFICATION", "\u039413C", "SHRUB-GRASS STEPPE", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "BIOGEOCHEMISTRY", "&Delta;13C", "01 natural sciences", "LIFE FORMS", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "13. 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Effects On Soils", "description": "Abstract   The present study assesses the effects of  Atriplex nummularia  Lindl. growth on soil chemical properties in a semi-arid area. The area is located in the Marrakech province (Morocco), in a degraded agropastoral region subjected to soil restoration actions based on fodder shrub plantations.  Three plantations of different age (1995, 2000, 2001), conducted in three different sites, were investigated. In each site, three plots with different degree of plant development (Good, Medium, Poor), were chosen. Three under-canopy (Uc) and three between-plants (Bp) minipits were sampled (0\u201310\u00a0cm and 10\u201320\u00a0cm) and analysed in each plot, for a total number of 54 minipits. Statistic analysis was carried out to check the significance of the observed Uc\u2013Bp average differences.  A significant increase under canopy was observed in soil Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR; +\u00a0139%) and OC (+\u00a032%) in the top layer (0\u201310\u00a0cm). The overall effects of the plantations on soil quality are discussed.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Desertification", " Land Restoration", " Rangeland", " Atriplex nummularia", " Organic carbon", " Alkalinity", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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It identifies new mechanisms to tackle land degradation based on retaining critical levels of natural capital whilst basing livelihoods on a wider range of ecosystem services. This is achieved through a case study analysis of the Kalahari rangelands in southwest Botswana. The paper first describes the socio-economic and ecological characteristics of the Kalahari rangelands and the types of land degradation taking place. It then focuses on bush encroachment as a way of exploring new economic instruments (e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services) designed to enhance the flow of ecosystem services that support livelihoods in rangeland systems. It does this by evaluating the likely impacts of bush encroachment, one of the key forms of rangeland degradation, on a range of ecosystem services in three land tenure types (private fenced ranches, communal grazing areas and Wildlife Management Areas), before considering options for more sustainable land management in these systems. We argue that with adequate policy support, economic mechanisms could help reorient degraded rangelands towards more sustainable land management.", "keywords": ["Payments for ecosystem services", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Environmental Engineering", "Botswana", "Economics of land degradation", "Agriculture", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "CAH26-01-02 - physical geographical sciences", "13. Climate action", "11. 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Robinia pseudoacacia was considered a promising tree for afforestation in the highly eroded region of the Loess Plateau due to its fast growth and ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. However, its beneficial role protecting soils from erosion has been now questioned and several negative effects on soil and vegetation have been described. In this study we aimed to analyze the effects of R. pseudoacacia plantation on plant community composition and dynamics through the effects that R. pseudoacacia has on light, soil fertility and soil water availability. We used a chronosequence from 10-40-year-old plantations and compared the environmental and vegetation characteristics of that areas with that of natural control areas with similar age. The results showed that R. pseudoacacia plantations reached maturity around 30 years and then declined in density and canopy cover. We also found that soil nutrients and moisture at the superficial soil layer improved with age until maturity of plantations, but photosynthetically active radiation at the ground level and soil moisture at deeper soil layers decreased with maturity in relation to control conditions. Plots with R. pseudoacacia of all ages had higher cover values, lower number of species but higher \u03b2-diversity values than control conditions and they also differed in species composition. These differences in structure and species composition were related to the fertilizer effect of R. pseudoacacia that favored colonization by weeds and ruderal species, and to the light interception by the canopy of trees that exclude light-demanding species, most of them perennial herbaceous species which were the dominant species in control conditions. This study was supported by the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41371280) and the public welfare special project of Ministry of Water Resources of China (201501045). Peer Reviewed", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Species composition", "\u03b2-diversity", "Photosynthetically active radiation", "Soil moisture dynamics", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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In this study, we evaluated how grazing has affected soil organic carbon and nitrogen to a depth of 50\u00a0cm in grasslands located in relict and actively-grazed sites in the Canyonlands physiographic section of the Colorado Plateau. We also evaluated differences in plant ground cover and the spatial distribution of soil resources. Results show that areas used by domestic livestock have 20% less plant cover and 100% less soil organic carbon and nitrogen compared to relict sites browsed by native ungulates. In actively grazed sites, domestic livestock grazing also appears to lead to clustered, rather than random, spatial distribution of soil resources. Magnetic susceptibility, a proxy for soil stability in this region, suggests that grazing increases soil erosion leading to an increase in the area of nutrient-depleted bare ground. Overall, these results, combined with previous studies in the region, suggest that livestock grazing affects both plant cover and soil fertility with potential long-term implications for the sustainability of grazing operations in this semi-arid landscape.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "availability", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "desertification", "15. Life on land", "soil microbial biomass", "soil organic carbon", "shrub-steppe ecosystem", "magnetic ssceptibility", "vegetation", "13. 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Metabarcoding holds much promise to fill this gap, however, nuclear copies of mitochondrial genes, and other artefacts lead to taxonomic inflation, which compromise the reliability of biodiversity inventories. Here, we explore the potential of a bioinformatic approach to jointly \uffe2\uff80\uff9cdenoise\uffe2\uff80\uff9d and filter nonauthentic mitochondrial sequences from metabarcode reads to obtain reliable soil beetle inventories and address open questions in soil biodiversity research, such as the scale of dispersal constraints in different soil layers. We sampled cloud forest arthropod communities from 49 sites in the Anaga peninsula of Tenerife (Canary Islands). We performed whole organism community DNA (wocDNA) metabarcoding, and built a local reference database with COI barcode sequences of 310 species of Coleoptera for filtering reads and the identification of metabarcoded species. This resulted in reliable haplotype data after considerably reducing nuclear mitochondrial copies and other artefacts. Comparing our results with previous beetle inventories, we found: (i) new species records, potentially representing undescribed species; (ii) new distribution records, and (iii) validated phylogeographic structure when compared with traditional sequencing approaches. Analyses also revealed evidence for higher dispersal constraint within deeper soil beetle communities, compared to those closer to the surface. The combined power of barcoding and metabarcoding contribute to mitigate the important shortfalls associated with soil arthropod diversity data, and thus address unresolved questions for this vast biodiversity fraction.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Reproducibility of Results", "Biodiversity", "Forests", "15. 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Soil biodiversity and biomass are essential drivers of ecosystem functions. However, unlike plant communities, little is known about how the diversity and biomass of soil microbial communities are interlinked across globally distributed biomes, and how variations in this relationship influence ecosystem function. To fill this knowledge gap, we conducted a field survey across global biomes, with contrasting vegetation and climate types. We show that soil carbon (C) content is associated to the microbial diversity\uffe2\uff80\uff93biomass relationship and ratio in soils across global biomes. This ratio provides an integrative index to identify those locations on Earth wherein diversity is much higher compared with biomass and vice versa. The soil microbial diversity-to-biomass ratio peaks in arid environments with low C content, and is very low in C-rich cold environments. Our study further advances that the reductions in soil C content associated with land use intensification and climate change could cause dramatic shifts in the microbial diversity-biomass ratio, with potential consequences for broad soil processes.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "0303 health sciences", "550", "Microbiota", "Science::Geology", "Soil Science", "Biodiversity", ":Geology [Science]", "15. Life on land", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Article", "Carbon", "Microbial Ecology", "Microbial ecology", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Here we combined three independent global field surveys of soil fungi with a satellite-derived temporal assessment of plant productivity, and report that phylotype richness within particular fungal functional groups drives the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. The richness of fungal decomposers was consistently and positively associated with ecosystem stability worldwide, while the opposite pattern was found for the richness of fungal plant pathogens, particularly in grasslands. We further demonstrated that the richness of soil decomposers was consistently positively linked with higher resistance of plant productivity in response to extreme drought events, while that of fungal plant pathogens showed a general negative relationship with plant productivity resilience/resistance patterns. Together, our work provides evidence supporting the critical role of soil fungal diversity to secure stable plant production over time in global ecosystems, and to buffer against extreme climate events.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Evolution", "Resistance", "580 Plants (Botany)", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "10126 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology", "Behavior and Systematics", "Soil fungal", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "10211 Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center", "Phylotype diversity", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Productivity", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Biodiversity", "Ecolog\u00eda", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Droughts", "1105 Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "13. 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Overgrazing can threaten the conservation of ecosystems through excessive defoliation of plants or trampling. On the contrary, moderate grazing can have benefits on ecosystem dynamics by favoring nutrient cycling or the soil microbial activity. The aim of this study was to analyze these effects in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland located in NE Spain. We established six study sites including three grazing intensities, where we sampled vegetation biomass and soil properties: nitrogen content, microbial biomass, water infiltration capacity, porosity, and gypsum content. These parameters were included in a plant-soil interaction model tested through Structural Equation Modeling. Grazing had a direct negative effect on plant biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01) and water infiltration capacity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05) affecting soil nitrogen content (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) and microbial biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.5), respectively. Infiltration capacity and porosity were primary drivers of plant biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05, both cases), and plant biomass was the main contributor to the soil nitrogen pool. Microbial biomass was dependent on infiltration capacity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05), porosity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01), and nitrogen (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01). Grazing directly or indirectly affected the functioning of the ecosystem through effects on plant and soil attributes, which may result in changes in plant growth, litter decomposition, or plant nutrient acquisition. This study revealed that moderate grazing can maintain optimal ecosystem features and prevent ecosystem degradation.", "keywords": ["plant-soil feedbacks", "2. Zero hunger", "Plant biomass", "porosity", "microbial biomass", "Plant-soil feedbacks", "soil fertility", "Microbial biomass", "Infiltration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "rangelands", "13. Climate action", "Rangelands", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Porosity", "plant biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Arid%20Land%20Research%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/cla.12208", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:18:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-14", "title": "Hidden biodiversity: total evidence phylogenetics and evolution of morphological traits in a highly diverse lineage of endogean ground beetles,TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 (Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini)", "description": "Abstract<p>Typhlocharisis the most diverse eyeless endogean ground beetle genus known to date, with 62 species all endemic to the West Mediterranean region. The lineage is characterized by a conservative and singular body plan within Carabidae that contrasts with a high morphological diversity in many traits. We provide an exhaustive phylogeny of the lineage through the study of 92 morphological characters from all 62 described species and 45 potential new species from 70 additional populations, and the combination of morphological and available molecular data, in the first total evidence phylogenetic approach for a highly diverse endogean lineage. We tracked the evolution of morphological traits over the obtained phylogenies. Results suggest eight morphologically distinct clades, which do not correspond to the species groups proposed formerly. Ancestral state reconstructions and phylogenetic signal analyses of morphological traits revealed that some of the previously key characters to the classification ofTyphlocharis, such as the umbilicate series or the apical denticles of elytra, are highly homoplasic, whereas other characters show stronger phylogenetic signal, including structures in the antennae, gula, pronotum and last abdominal ventrite. This evidence supports the split ofTyphlocharisinto three genera:Lusotyphlusgen. nov.;TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 andMicrocharidiusCoiffait, 1969 (revalidated), forming the subtribe Typhlocharina Jeanne, 1973.</p", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolution", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Morphological traits", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12208"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Cladistics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/cla.12208", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/cla.12208", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/cla.12208"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.14878", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:18:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-22", "title": "Which practices co\u2010deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?", "description": "Abstract<p>There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, combatting land degradation and desertification, and delivering food security (referred to hereafter as \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland challenges\uffe2\uff80\uff9d). We assess the potential for 40 practices to address these land challenges and find that: Nine options deliver medium to large benefits for all four land challenges. A further two options have no global estimates for adaptation, but have medium to large benefits for all other land challenges. Five options have large mitigation potential (&gt;3\uffc2\uffa0Gt CO2eq/year) without adverse impacts on the other land challenges. Five options have moderate mitigation potential, with no adverse impacts on the other land challenges. Sixteen practices have large adaptation potential (&gt;25 million people benefit), without adverse side effects on other land challenges. Most practices can be applied without competing for available land. However, seven options could result in competition for land. A large number of practices do not require dedicated land, including several land management options, all value chain options, and all risk management options. Four options could greatly increase competition for land if applied at a large scale, though the impact is scale and context specific, highlighting the need for safeguards to ensure that expansion of land for mitigation does not impact natural systems and food security. A number of practices, such as increased food productivity, dietary change and reduced food loss and waste, can reduce demand for land conversion, thereby potentially freeing\uffe2\uff80\uff90up land and creating opportunities for enhanced implementation of other practices, making them important components of portfolios of practices to address the combined land challenges.</p", "keywords": ["773901", "Invited Primary Research Article", "550", "QH301 Biology", "Acclimatization", "demand management", "TROPICAL FORESTS", "adaptation; adverse side effects; co-benefits; demand management; desertification; food security; land degradation; land management; mitigation; practice; risk management", "ECOSYSTEM SERVICES", "adaptation", "01 natural sciences", "Food Supply", "NE/M021327/1", "PRACTICE", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "11. Sustainability", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "776810", "LAND MANAGEMENT", "ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS", "ADAPTATION", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "General Environmental Science", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Ecology", "DESERTIFICATION", "land degradation", "FOOD SECURITY", "NEGATIVE EMISSIONS", "1. No poverty", "URBAN SPRAWL", "Agriculture", "desertification", "practice", "LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT", "[SDV.EE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment", "LAND DEGRADATION", "LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS", "adverse side effects", "FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE", "environment", "GE Environmental Sciences", "European Research Council", "RISK MANAGEMENT", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION", "330", "Climate Change", "GREENHOUSE-GAS MITIGATION", "MITIGATION", "risk management", "DEMAND MANAGEMENT", "12. Responsible consumption", "EP/M013200/1", "mitigation", "ORGANIC-CARBON", "[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", "co-benefits", "Environmental Chemistry", "774378", "SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "SDG 2 - Zero Hunger", "European Commission", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "ddc:550", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "land management", "food security", "15. Life on land", "Earth sciences", "CO-BENEFITS", "Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)", "13. Climate action", "adverse side-effects", "Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)", "774124", "BB/N013484/1", "SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/962658/2/Global%20Change%20Biology%20-%202019%20-%20Smith%20-%20Which%20practices%20co%e2%80%90deliver%20food%20security%20%20climate%20change%20mitigation%20and%20adaptation%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.14878"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14878"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.14878", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.14878", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.14878"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:18:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-07-23", "title": "Shrub Encroachment Can Reverse Desertification In Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grasslands", "description": "Abstract<p>The worldwide phenomenon of shrub encroachment in grass\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated dryland ecosystems is commonly associated with desertification. Studies of the purported desertification effects associated with shrub encroachment are often restricted to relatively few study areas, and document a narrow range of possible impacts upon biota and ecosystem processes. We conducted a study in degraded Mediterranean grasslands dominated by Stipa tenacissima to simultaneously evaluate the effects of shrub encroachment on the structure and composition of multiple biotic community components, and on various indicators of ecosystem function. Shrub encroachment enhanced vascular plant richness, biomass of fungi, actinomycetes and other bacteria, and was linked with greater soil fertility and N mineralization rates. While shrub encroachment may be a widespread phenomenon in drylands, an interpretation that this is an expression of desertification is not universal. Our results suggest that shrub establishment may be an important step in the reversal of desertification processes in the Mediterranean region.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Mediterranean Region", "Shrub encroachment", "Mediterranean", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "Stipa tenacissima", "Semi-arid", "13. Climate action", "Ecosystem functioning", "Desert Climate", "Plant successional dynamics", "Global change", "Desertification", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:19:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-01", "title": "Rhizosheath\u2013root system changes exopolysaccharide content but stabilizes bacterial community across contrasting seasons in a desert environment", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>In hot deserts daily/seasonal fluctuations pose great challenges to the resident organisms. However, these extreme ecosystems host unique microenvironments, such as the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system of desert speargrasses in which biological activities and interactions are facilitated by milder conditions and reduced fluctuations. Here, we examined the bacterial microbiota associated with this structure and its surrounding sand in the desert speargrass Stipagrostis pungens under the contrasting environmental conditions of summer and winter in the Sahara Desert.</p>                                Results                 <p>The belowground rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system has higher nutrient and humidity contents, and cooler temperatures than the surrounding sand. The plant responds to the harsh environmental conditions of the summer by increasing the abundance and diversity of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) compared to the winter. On the contrary, the bacterial community associated with the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system and its interactome remain stable and, unlike the bulk sand, are unaffected by the seasonal environmental variations. The rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system bacterial communities are consistently dominated by Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria and form distinct bacteria communities from those of bulk sand in the two seasons. The microbiome-stabilization mediated by the plant host acts to consistently retain beneficial bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting functions, including those capable to produce EPS, which increase the sand water holding capacity ameliorating the rhizosheath micro-environment.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Our results reveal the capability of plants in desert ecosystems to stabilize their below ground microbial community under seasonal contrasting environmental conditions, minimizing the heterogeneity of the surrounding bulk sand and contributing to the overall holobiont resilience under poly-extreme conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath", "Plant legacy", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Environmentally-independent microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Rhizosheath", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Environmental fluctuation", "Environmental sciences", "Plant-microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "PGP microorganisms", "13. Climate action", "Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath;", "Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)", "GE1-350", "Desert", "Desertification", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/921619/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%202022_Rhizosheat%20bact%20comm_EnvMicrobiome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/5089931/1/doi.org%3a10.1186%3as40793-022-00407-3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/1159772/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%20-%202022%20-%20Rhizosheath%e2%80%93root%20system%20changes%20exopolysaccharide%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1285602/1/Marasco%20et%20al%20Env%20Microbiome%202022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/f13091456", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-09-13", "title": "Knowledge about Plant Coexistence during Vegetation Succession for Forest Management on the Loess Plateau, China", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Coexistence between species within plant communities is a key issue in the practice of revegetation, forest management, and biodiversity conservation. Vegetation restoration is critical to control soil erosion and improve the ecological environment on the Loess Plateau. Here, we investigate the interspecific relationships of dominant plants during natural vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau. The results suggest that, under the ecological process of environmental filtering, species within communities can reduce interspecific competition and promote species coexistence via spatial heterogeneity and temporal asynchronous differences. The ecological niche overlap index (Oik) significantly and positively correlated with the strength of interspecific associations. Most species pairs had weak competition and more stable interspecific relationships. The results of the \u03c72 test showed that 317 species pairs were positively associated and 118 were negatively associated. The community is in a positive succession process, and the interaction relationship between species tends to be neutral. We should enhance the protection of positively associated species and pay attention to negatively associated species during forest management. Results revealed that Carex lanceolata Boott and Lespedeza bicolor Turcz coexisted easily with other species for mutual benefit, which could help build artificial forestland of native species to improve the ecological function.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Overlap", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Plant communities", "ecological niche; overlap; plant communities; interspecific relationship; biodiversity conservation; spatial heterogeneity", "Ecological niche", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Spatial heterogeneity", "Interspecific relationship", "15. Life on land", "Biodiversity conservation", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1456/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1456/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091456"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forests", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/f13091456", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/f13091456", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/f13091456"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/land11122200", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:20:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-05", "title": "Land Suitability Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating Soil-Improving Cropping Systems", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Agricultural land use planning is based on the capacity of the soil to support different types of crops and is a prerequisite for better use of cultivated land. Land Suitability Analysis (LSA) is used to measure the level of suitability of growing a specific crop in the area and can also be used to evaluate future scenarios as a means for sustainable agriculture. LSA was employed to calculate current land suitability, as well as four scenarios of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems (SICS): (a) Conservation Tillage (CT), (b) Cover Crop (CC), (c) Crop Residue Management (CRM), and (d) Manure Application (MA). The scenarios of SICS were derived by increasing soil organic matter and cation exchange capacity values depending on the SICS hypothetically applied for a period of 100 years in the future. LSA was evaluated for maize in three sites: (a) Flanders (BE), (b) Somogy (HU), and (c) Hengshui (CH). LSA was performed using the Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System (ALUES) considering soil and climatic and topographic parameters. Weighing factors of input parameters were assigned using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results show that in Flanders, the highly suitable (S2) class covered 3.3% of the total area, and the best scenario for improving current LS was CRM, in which S2 expanded to 9.1%. In Somogy, the S2 class covered 18.3% of the total area, and the best scenarios for improving current land suitability were CT and CC, in both of which the S2 class expanded to 70.5% of the total area. In Hengshui, the S2 class covered 64.7% of the total area, and all SICS scenarios performed extremely well, converting almost all moderately suitable (S3) areas to S2. The main limiting factor that was recognized from a limiting factor analysis in all cases was the climatic conditions. This work proves that LSA can evaluate scenarios of management practices and recognize limiting factors. The proposed methodology is a novel approach that can provide land suitability maps to efficiently evaluate SICS scenarios by projecting soil characteristics and LSA in the future, thus facilitating management decisions of regional policy makers.</p></article>", "keywords": ["IMPACT", "AHP", "Environmental Studies", "land use planning", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "3301 Architecture", "01 natural sciences", "4104 Environmental management", "CARBON SEQUESTRATION", "AGROECOLOGY", "MANAGEMENT", "BINH THUAN PROVINCE", "0502 Environmental Science and Management", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Science & Technology", "DESERTIFICATION", "S", "Agricultural Land Use Evaluation System", "soil fertility", "3304 Urban and regional planning", "Agriculture", "sustainability; soil fertility; land use planning; AHP; ALUES", "ALUES", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "Analytical Hierarchy Process", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Life Sciences & Biomedicine"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/12/2200/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/12/2200/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122200"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Land", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/land11122200", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/land11122200", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/land11122200"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3897/soils4europe.e118853", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:21:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-05-30", "title": "Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p/></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3897/soils4europe.e118853"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soils%20for%20Europe", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3897/soils4europe.e118853", "name": "item", "description": "10.3897/soils4europe.e118853", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3897/soils4europe.e118853"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.11m00", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:21:19Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands", "description": "unspecifiedEnvironmental and soil  data from encroached/unencroached Stipa tenacissima steppes from  SpainEnvironmental  (coordinates, elevation, slope, aspect, mean annual rainfall and  temperature) and soil (pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen, total  phosphorus, soil respiration, potassium and nitrogen mineralization)  variables at the microsite and site scales for Stipa tenacissima  grasslands with and without sprouting shrubs in a gradient from central to  southern Spain.Ecol_Lett_2009.zip", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Stipa tenacissima", "Holocene", "13. Climate action", "semi-arid", "15. Life on land", "Plant successional dynamics", "shrub encroachment", "Desertification"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Maestre, Fernando T., Bowker, Matthew A., Puche, Mar\u00eda D., Bel\u00e9n Hinojosa, M., Mart\u00ednez, Isabel, Garc\u00eda-Palacios, Pablo, Castillo, Andrea P., Soliveres, Santiago, Luzuriaga, Ar\u00e1ntzazu L., S\u00e1nchez, Ana M., Carreira, Jos\u00e9 A., Gallardo, Antonio, Escudero, Adri\u00e1n,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.11m00"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.11m00", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.11m00", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.11m00"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "1983/ab17d5ff-3657-42df-84a6-4ab038c16f20", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:25:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-22", "title": "Which practices co\u2010deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?", "description": "Abstract<p>There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, combatting land degradation and desertification, and delivering food security (referred to hereafter as \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland challenges\uffe2\uff80\uff9d). We assess the potential for 40 practices to address these land challenges and find that: Nine options deliver medium to large benefits for all four land challenges. A further two options have no global estimates for adaptation, but have medium to large benefits for all other land challenges. Five options have large mitigation potential (&gt;3\uffc2\uffa0Gt CO2eq/year) without adverse impacts on the other land challenges. Five options have moderate mitigation potential, with no adverse impacts on the other land challenges. Sixteen practices have large adaptation potential (&gt;25 million people benefit), without adverse side effects on other land challenges. Most practices can be applied without competing for available land. However, seven options could result in competition for land. A large number of practices do not require dedicated land, including several land management options, all value chain options, and all risk management options. Four options could greatly increase competition for land if applied at a large scale, though the impact is scale and context specific, highlighting the need for safeguards to ensure that expansion of land for mitigation does not impact natural systems and food security. A number of practices, such as increased food productivity, dietary change and reduced food loss and waste, can reduce demand for land conversion, thereby potentially freeing\uffe2\uff80\uff90up land and creating opportunities for enhanced implementation of other practices, making them important components of portfolios of practices to address the combined land challenges.</p", "keywords": ["773901", "Invited Primary Research Article", "550", "QH301 Biology", "Acclimatization", "demand management", "TROPICAL FORESTS", "adaptation; adverse side effects; co-benefits; demand management; desertification; food security; land degradation; land management; mitigation; practice; risk management", "ECOSYSTEM SERVICES", "adaptation", "01 natural sciences", "Food Supply", "NE/M021327/1", "PRACTICE", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "11. 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Climate action", "adverse side-effects", "Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)", "774124", "BB/N013484/1", "SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/962658/2/Global%20Change%20Biology%20-%202019%20-%20Smith%20-%20Which%20practices%20co%e2%80%90deliver%20food%20security%20%20climate%20change%20mitigation%20and%20adaptation%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.14878"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/1983/ab17d5ff-3657-42df-84a6-4ab038c16f20"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "1983/ab17d5ff-3657-42df-84a6-4ab038c16f20", "name": "item", "description": "1983/ab17d5ff-3657-42df-84a6-4ab038c16f20", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/1983/ab17d5ff-3657-42df-84a6-4ab038c16f20"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.14973166", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:22:49Z", "type": "Report", "title": "The increasing threat of desertification to Europe", "description": "The rising threat of desertification, likely to be exacerbated by increasing climatic and anthropogenic drivers in the future, requires immediate and comprehensive action. In the EU, efforts to address desertification have traditionally been plagued by the absence of a centralised EU-level strategy. Policies which do tackle desertification in some form, and to a certain extent, are often sectoral and fragmented in nature.\u00a0   Nonetheless, the EU council\u2019s recent adoption of conclusion to address the challenges brought upon by land degradation and desertification signals an increasing recognition of the need to take action. Revised and new policies, for instance the Common Agricultural Policy and Nature Restoration Law respectively, provide opportunities to combat the drivers and impacts of desertification. However, a lack of binding targets and continued absence of cohesion between policies reflects the distance policies still need to travel in order to combat desertification comprehensively in Europe.", "keywords": ["Land degradation", "Desertification"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kam, Hermann, Muro, Melanie,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973166"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14973166", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14973166", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14973166"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.7934/p3243", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-14", "title": "Hidden biodiversity: total evidence phylogenetics and evolution of morphological traits in a highly diverse lineage of endogean ground beetles,TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 (Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini)", "description": "Abstract<p>Typhlocharisis the most diverse eyeless endogean ground beetle genus known to date, with 62 species all endemic to the West Mediterranean region. The lineage is characterized by a conservative and singular body plan within Carabidae that contrasts with a high morphological diversity in many traits. We provide an exhaustive phylogeny of the lineage through the study of 92 morphological characters from all 62 described species and 45 potential new species from 70 additional populations, and the combination of morphological and available molecular data, in the first total evidence phylogenetic approach for a highly diverse endogean lineage. We tracked the evolution of morphological traits over the obtained phylogenies. Results suggest eight morphologically distinct clades, which do not correspond to the species groups proposed formerly. Ancestral state reconstructions and phylogenetic signal analyses of morphological traits revealed that some of the previously key characters to the classification ofTyphlocharis, such as the umbilicate series or the apical denticles of elytra, are highly homoplasic, whereas other characters show stronger phylogenetic signal, including structures in the antennae, gula, pronotum and last abdominal ventrite. This evidence supports the split ofTyphlocharisinto three genera:Lusotyphlusgen. nov.;TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 andMicrocharidiusCoiffait, 1969 (revalidated), forming the subtribe Typhlocharina Jeanne, 1973.</p", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolution", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Morphological traits", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.7934/p3243"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Cladistics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.7934/p3243", "name": "item", "description": "10.7934/p3243", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.7934/p3243"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/179752", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-06-14", "title": "Hidden biodiversity: total evidence phylogenetics and evolution of morphological traits in a highly diverse lineage of endogean ground beetles,TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 (Carabidae, Trechinae, Anillini)", "description": "Abstract<p>Typhlocharisis the most diverse eyeless endogean ground beetle genus known to date, with 62 species all endemic to the West Mediterranean region. The lineage is characterized by a conservative and singular body plan within Carabidae that contrasts with a high morphological diversity in many traits. We provide an exhaustive phylogeny of the lineage through the study of 92 morphological characters from all 62 described species and 45 potential new species from 70 additional populations, and the combination of morphological and available molecular data, in the first total evidence phylogenetic approach for a highly diverse endogean lineage. We tracked the evolution of morphological traits over the obtained phylogenies. Results suggest eight morphologically distinct clades, which do not correspond to the species groups proposed formerly. Ancestral state reconstructions and phylogenetic signal analyses of morphological traits revealed that some of the previously key characters to the classification ofTyphlocharis, such as the umbilicate series or the apical denticles of elytra, are highly homoplasic, whereas other characters show stronger phylogenetic signal, including structures in the antennae, gula, pronotum and last abdominal ventrite. This evidence supports the split ofTyphlocharisinto three genera:Lusotyphlusgen. nov.;TyphlocharisDieck, 1869 andMicrocharidiusCoiffait, 1969 (revalidated), forming the subtribe Typhlocharina Jeanne, 1973.</p", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolution", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Morphological traits", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/179752"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Cladistics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/179752", "name": "item", "description": "10261/179752", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/179752"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/295679", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-09-21", "title": "Plant-soil interactions in response to grazing intensity in a semi-arid ecosystem from NE Spain", "description": "Livestock grazing is an important element in ecosystem regulation since it may affect essential ecosystem functions, such as nutrient acquisition, organic matter decomposition, or litter accumulation in the soil. Overgrazing can threaten the conservation of ecosystems through excessive defoliation of plants or trampling. On the contrary, moderate grazing can have benefits on ecosystem dynamics by favoring nutrient cycling or the soil microbial activity. The aim of this study was to analyze these effects in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland located in NE Spain. We established six study sites including three grazing intensities, where we sampled vegetation biomass and soil properties: nitrogen content, microbial biomass, water infiltration capacity, porosity, and gypsum content. These parameters were included in a plant-soil interaction model tested through Structural Equation Modeling. Grazing had a direct negative effect on plant biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01) and water infiltration capacity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05) affecting soil nitrogen content (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) and microbial biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.5), respectively. Infiltration capacity and porosity were primary drivers of plant biomass (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05, both cases), and plant biomass was the main contributor to the soil nitrogen pool. Microbial biomass was dependent on infiltration capacity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05), porosity (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01), and nitrogen (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.01). Grazing directly or indirectly affected the functioning of the ecosystem through effects on plant and soil attributes, which may result in changes in plant growth, litter decomposition, or plant nutrient acquisition. This study revealed that moderate grazing can maintain optimal ecosystem features and prevent ecosystem degradation.", "keywords": ["plant-soil feedbacks", "2. Zero hunger", "Plant biomass", "porosity", "microbial biomass", "Plant-soil feedbacks", "soil fertility", "Microbial biomass", "Infiltration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Climate action", "Rangelands", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Porosity", "plant biomass"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10261/295679"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Arid%20Land%20Research%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/295679", "name": "item", "description": "10261/295679", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/295679"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/295770", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-10-05", "title": "Metabarcoding for biodiversity inventory blind spots: A test case using the beetle fauna of an insular cloud forest", "description": "Abstract<p>Soils harbour a rich arthropod fauna, but many species are still not formally described (Linnaean shortfall) and the distribution of those already described is poorly understood (Wallacean shortfall). Metabarcoding holds much promise to fill this gap, however, nuclear copies of mitochondrial genes, and other artefacts lead to taxonomic inflation, which compromise the reliability of biodiversity inventories. Here, we explore the potential of a bioinformatic approach to jointly \uffe2\uff80\uff9cdenoise\uffe2\uff80\uff9d and filter nonauthentic mitochondrial sequences from metabarcode reads to obtain reliable soil beetle inventories and address open questions in soil biodiversity research, such as the scale of dispersal constraints in different soil layers. We sampled cloud forest arthropod communities from 49 sites in the Anaga peninsula of Tenerife (Canary Islands). We performed whole organism community DNA (wocDNA) metabarcoding, and built a local reference database with COI barcode sequences of 310 species of Coleoptera for filtering reads and the identification of metabarcoded species. This resulted in reliable haplotype data after considerably reducing nuclear mitochondrial copies and other artefacts. Comparing our results with previous beetle inventories, we found: (i) new species records, potentially representing undescribed species; (ii) new distribution records, and (iii) validated phylogeographic structure when compared with traditional sequencing approaches. Analyses also revealed evidence for higher dispersal constraint within deeper soil beetle communities, compared to those closer to the surface. The combined power of barcoding and metabarcoding contribute to mitigate the important shortfalls associated with soil arthropod diversity data, and thus address unresolved questions for this vast biodiversity fraction.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Reproducibility of Results", "Biodiversity", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Coleoptera", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "metabarcoding", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Animals", "DNA Barcoding", " Taxonomic", "taxonomic inflation", "Arthropods", "Barcoding", "mesofauna"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/295770"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Molecular%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/295770", "name": "item", "description": "10261/295770", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/295770"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-10-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/308712", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-09-12", "title": "Knowledge about Plant Coexistence during Vegetation Succession for Forest Management on the Loess Plateau, China", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Coexistence between species within plant communities is a key issue in the practice of revegetation, forest management, and biodiversity conservation. Vegetation restoration is critical to control soil erosion and improve the ecological environment on the Loess Plateau. Here, we investigate the interspecific relationships of dominant plants during natural vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau. The results suggest that, under the ecological process of environmental filtering, species within communities can reduce interspecific competition and promote species coexistence via spatial heterogeneity and temporal asynchronous differences. The ecological niche overlap index (Oik) significantly and positively correlated with the strength of interspecific associations. Most species pairs had weak competition and more stable interspecific relationships. The results of the \u03c72 test showed that 317 species pairs were positively associated and 118 were negatively associated. The community is in a positive succession process, and the interaction relationship between species tends to be neutral. We should enhance the protection of positively associated species and pay attention to negatively associated species during forest management. Results revealed that Carex lanceolata Boott and Lespedeza bicolor Turcz coexisted easily with other species for mutual benefit, which could help build artificial forestland of native species to improve the ecological function.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Overlap", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Plant communities", "Ecological niche", "ecological niche; overlap; plant communities; interspecific relationship; biodiversity conservation; spatial heterogeneity", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Spatial heterogeneity", "Interspecific relationship", "15. Life on land", "Biodiversity conservation", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1456/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/9/1456/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10261/308712"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forests", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/308712", "name": "item", "description": "10261/308712", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/308712"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/339529", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:39Z", "type": "Report", "title": "Understanding the measurements and variability of aerosol optical properties in NE Spain", "description": "Open Access[spa] Los aerosoles atmosf\u00e9ricos resultan claves a la hora de regular el clima de la Tierra, con un efecto sobre el clima estimado de enfriamiento a nivel global, si bien con una alta incertidumbre en su valor exacto. Es por ello necesario reducir dichas incertidumbres, principalmente asociadas a la alta variabilidad y heterogeneidad de su distribuci\u00f3n espacial y temporal, las m\u00faltiples especies de aerosoles con diferentes propiedades f\u00edsico-qu\u00edmicas, y los errores de medida. Las especies de aerosoles m\u00e1s relevantes debido a su efecto en el calentamiento del clima son el carbono negro (BC), la fracci\u00f3n absorbente de los aerosoles org\u00e1nicos (OA), i.e. carbono marr\u00f3n (BrC), y, potencialmente, el polvo mineral. Para el estudio de las propiedades \u00f3pticas de los aerosoles, esta tesis se ha centrado en un \u00e1rea con una gran variabilidad de fuentes de emisi\u00f3n de aerosoles de origen natural (biog\u00e9nicos, incendios, polvo mineral, sal marina) y antropog\u00e9nico (tr\u00e1fico, industria, viviendas, portuario, etc.) en el Mediterr\u00e1neo, en el NE de Espa\u00f1a. Esta \u00e1rea presenta una orograf\u00eda compleja que en combinaci\u00f3n con patrones atmosf\u00e9ricos que promueven los sistemas de brisas favorece la recirculaci\u00f3n de los aerosoles, generando m\u00faltiples capas de aerosoles. Adem\u00e1s, dichos escenarios pueden verse tambi\u00e9n influidos por la presencia de advecci\u00f3n de polvo mineral desde el N de \u00c1frica, contribuyendo significativamente a la concentraci\u00f3n de material particulado y afectando las propiedades \u00f3pticas. Con el fin de mejorar la caracterizaci\u00f3n de las propiedades \u00f3pticas del BC, el BrC y el polvo mineral en el NE de Espa\u00f1a, esta tesis ha llevado a cabo una serie de estudios centrada en: i) la mejora de la medida de la absorci\u00f3n analizando a trav\u00e9s de un m\u00e9todo novedoso el comportamiento de un par\u00e1metro clave para su obtenci\u00f3n mediante el aethalometro AE33, ii) la descripci\u00f3n de la variaci\u00f3n vertical de las propiedades f\u00edsico- qu\u00edmicas de los aerosoles atmosf\u00e9ricos durante eventos de recirculaci\u00f3n e intrusiones de polvo mineral el verano de 2015 a trav\u00e9s de la combinaci\u00f3n de vuelos instrumentados y medidas en las estaciones de medida, iii) el efecto de la mezcla de OA y aerosoles inorg\u00e1nicos con part\u00edculas de BC en su absorci\u00f3n, y iv) las propiedades \u00f3pticas del polvo mineral en una fuente de emisi\u00f3n en el Sahara seg\u00fan la intensidad de emisi\u00f3n.", "keywords": ["Aerosols", "Dispersi\u00f3 de la llum", "CIENCIAS DE LA ATMOSFERA", "Climatolog\u00eda general", "Meteorolog\u00eda", "Atmospheric physics", "F\u00edsica atmosf\u00e9rica", "Light scattering", "Optics", "Dust", "535", "Absorci\u00f3 de la llum", "\u00d2ptica", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Ci\u00e8ncies Experimentals i Matem\u00e0tiques", "Absorci\u00f3n de la luz", "Polvo", "\u00d3ptica atmosf\u00e9ric", "F\u00edsica atmosf\u00e8rica", "Aerosoles", "Pols", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Dispersi\u00f3n de la luz", "Light absorption", "\u00d3ptica"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Yus D\u00edez, Jes\u00fas", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/339529"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/339529", "name": "item", "description": "10261/339529", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/339529"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/360070", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-05-30", "title": "Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p/></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/360070"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soils%20for%20Europe", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/360070", "name": "item", "description": "10261/360070", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/360070"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/384984", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:41Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "[Dataset] Impact of Dust Source Patchiness on the Existence of a Constant Dust Flux Layer During Aeolian Erosion Events", "description": "Open AccessDust emission fluxes during wind soil erosion are usually estimated using a dust concentration vertical gradient, by assuming a constant dust flux layer between the surface and the dust measurement levels. Here, we investigate the existence of this layer during erosion events recorded in Iceland and Jordan. Size-resolved dust fluxes were estimated at three levels between 2 and 4\u00a0m using the eddy-covariance method. Dust fluxes were found mainly constant only between the two upper levels in Iceland, the lower dust flux being often stronger and richer in coarse particles, while dust fluxes in Jordan were nearly constant across all levels. The wind dynamics could not explain the absence of a constant dust flux layer in Iceland. We show that the presence of stationary dust source patches in Iceland, related to surface humidity, created a non-uniform dust layer near the surface, named dust roughness sublayer (DRSL), where individual plumes behind each patch interact but do not fully mix. The lowest dust measurement level was probably located within this sublayer while the upper ones were located above, such that there the emitted dust became spatially well-mixed. This explains near the surface in Iceland, the more intermittent dust concentration, its low correlation with the dust concentrations above, and the richer dust flux in coarse particles due to their lower deposition contribution. Our findings highlight the importance of estimating dust fluxes above a dust blending height whose characteristics depend on the dust source patchiness caused by surface humidity or the presence of sparse non-erosive elements.", "keywords": ["Make cities and human settlements inclusive", " safe", " resilient and sustainable", "Dust flux", "Build resilient infrastructure", " promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation", "Soil wind erosion", "Size distribution", "Constant flux layer", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Dupont, S., Klose, M., Irvine, M. R., Gonz\u00e1lez-Fl\u00f3rez, C., Alastuey, Andr\u00e9s, Bonnefond, J. M., Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P., Gonzalez-Romero, A., Hussein, T., Lamaud, E., Meyer, H., Panta, A., Querol, Xavier, Schepanski, K., Vergara Palacio, S., Wieser, A., Yus-D\u00edez, Jes\u00fas, Kandler, K., P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda-Pando, C.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/384984"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/384984", "name": "item", "description": "10261/384984", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/384984"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10754/676111", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:24:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-01", "title": "Rhizosheath\u2013root system changes exopolysaccharide content but stabilizes bacterial community across contrasting seasons in a desert environment", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>In hot deserts daily/seasonal fluctuations pose great challenges to the resident organisms. However, these extreme ecosystems host unique microenvironments, such as the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system of desert speargrasses in which biological activities and interactions are facilitated by milder conditions and reduced fluctuations. Here, we examined the bacterial microbiota associated with this structure and its surrounding sand in the desert speargrass Stipagrostis pungens under the contrasting environmental conditions of summer and winter in the Sahara Desert.</p>                                Results                 <p>The belowground rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system has higher nutrient and humidity contents, and cooler temperatures than the surrounding sand. The plant responds to the harsh environmental conditions of the summer by increasing the abundance and diversity of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) compared to the winter. On the contrary, the bacterial community associated with the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system and its interactome remain stable and, unlike the bulk sand, are unaffected by the seasonal environmental variations. The rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system bacterial communities are consistently dominated by Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria and form distinct bacteria communities from those of bulk sand in the two seasons. The microbiome-stabilization mediated by the plant host acts to consistently retain beneficial bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting functions, including those capable to produce EPS, which increase the sand water holding capacity ameliorating the rhizosheath micro-environment.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Our results reveal the capability of plants in desert ecosystems to stabilize their below ground microbial community under seasonal contrasting environmental conditions, minimizing the heterogeneity of the surrounding bulk sand and contributing to the overall holobiont resilience under poly-extreme conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath", "Plant legacy", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "15. Life on land", "Rhizosheath", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Environmental fluctuation", "Environmental sciences", "Plant-microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath;", "Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)", "GE1-350", "Desert", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/921619/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%202022_Rhizosheat%20bact%20comm_EnvMicrobiome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/5089931/1/doi.org%3a10.1186%3as40793-022-00407-3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/1159772/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%20-%202022%20-%20Rhizosheath%e2%80%93root%20system%20changes%20exopolysaccharide%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1285602/1/Marasco%20et%20al%20Env%20Microbiome%202022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10754/676111"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10754/676111", "name": "item", "description": "10754/676111", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10754/676111"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "1959.7/uws:68562", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:25:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-09", "title": "Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability", "description": "Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme drought events, remain uncertain. Here we combined three independent global field surveys of soil fungi with a satellite-derived temporal assessment of plant productivity, and report that phylotype richness within particular fungal functional groups drives the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. The richness of fungal decomposers was consistently and positively associated with ecosystem stability worldwide, while the opposite pattern was found for the richness of fungal plant pathogens, particularly in grasslands. We further demonstrated that the richness of soil decomposers was consistently positively linked with higher resistance of plant productivity in response to extreme drought events, while that of fungal plant pathogens showed a general negative relationship with plant productivity resilience/resistance patterns. Together, our work provides evidence supporting the critical role of soil fungal diversity to secure stable plant production over time in global ecosystems, and to buffer against extreme climate events.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Evolution", "Resistance", "580 Plants (Botany)", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "10126 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology", "Behavior and Systematics", "Soil fungal", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "10211 Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center", "Phylotype diversity", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Productivity", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Biodiversity", "Ecolog\u00eda", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Droughts", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "1105 Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "13. Climate action", "Ecosystem stability", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "2303 Ecology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01756-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/1959.7/uws:68562"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "1959.7/uws:68562", "name": "item", "description": "1959.7/uws:68562", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/1959.7/uws:68562"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2445/193136", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-26T16:25:43Z", "type": "Report", "title": "Understanding the measurements and variability of aerosol optical properties in NE Spain", "description": "Open Access[spa] Los aerosoles atmosf\u00e9ricos resultan claves a la hora de regular el clima de la Tierra, con un efecto sobre el clima estimado de enfriamiento a nivel global, si bien con una alta incertidumbre en su valor exacto. Es por ello necesario reducir dichas incertidumbres, principalmente asociadas a la alta variabilidad y heterogeneidad de su distribuci\u00f3n espacial y temporal, las m\u00faltiples especies de aerosoles con diferentes propiedades f\u00edsico-qu\u00edmicas, y los errores de medida. Las especies de aerosoles m\u00e1s relevantes debido a su efecto en el calentamiento del clima son el carbono negro (BC), la fracci\u00f3n absorbente de los aerosoles org\u00e1nicos (OA), i.e. carbono marr\u00f3n (BrC), y, potencialmente, el polvo mineral. Para el estudio de las propiedades \u00f3pticas de los aerosoles, esta tesis se ha centrado en un \u00e1rea con una gran variabilidad de fuentes de emisi\u00f3n de aerosoles de origen natural (biog\u00e9nicos, incendios, polvo mineral, sal marina) y antropog\u00e9nico (tr\u00e1fico, industria, viviendas, portuario, etc.) en el Mediterr\u00e1neo, en el NE de Espa\u00f1a. Esta \u00e1rea presenta una orograf\u00eda compleja que en combinaci\u00f3n con patrones atmosf\u00e9ricos que promueven los sistemas de brisas favorece la recirculaci\u00f3n de los aerosoles, generando m\u00faltiples capas de aerosoles. Adem\u00e1s, dichos escenarios pueden verse tambi\u00e9n influidos por la presencia de advecci\u00f3n de polvo mineral desde el N de \u00c1frica, contribuyendo significativamente a la concentraci\u00f3n de material particulado y afectando las propiedades \u00f3pticas. Con el fin de mejorar la caracterizaci\u00f3n de las propiedades \u00f3pticas del BC, el BrC y el polvo mineral en el NE de Espa\u00f1a, esta tesis ha llevado a cabo una serie de estudios centrada en: i) la mejora de la medida de la absorci\u00f3n analizando a trav\u00e9s de un m\u00e9todo novedoso el comportamiento de un par\u00e1metro clave para su obtenci\u00f3n mediante el aethalometro AE33, ii) la descripci\u00f3n de la variaci\u00f3n vertical de las propiedades f\u00edsico- qu\u00edmicas de los aerosoles atmosf\u00e9ricos durante eventos de recirculaci\u00f3n e intrusiones de polvo mineral el verano de 2015 a trav\u00e9s de la combinaci\u00f3n de vuelos instrumentados y medidas en las estaciones de medida, iii) el efecto de la mezcla de OA y aerosoles inorg\u00e1nicos con part\u00edculas de BC en su absorci\u00f3n, y iv) las propiedades \u00f3pticas del polvo mineral en una fuente de emisi\u00f3n en el Sahara seg\u00fan la intensidad de emisi\u00f3n.", "keywords": ["Aerosols", "Dispersi\u00f3 de la llum", "CIENCIAS DE LA ATMOSFERA", "Climatolog\u00eda general", "Meteorolog\u00eda", "Atmospheric physics", "F\u00edsica atmosf\u00e9rica", "Light scattering", "Optics", "Dust", "535", "Absorci\u00f3 de la llum", "\u00d2ptica", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Ci\u00e8ncies Experimentals i Matem\u00e0tiques", "Absorci\u00f3n de la luz", "Polvo", "\u00d3ptica atmosf\u00e9ric", "F\u00edsica atmosf\u00e8rica", "Aerosoles", "Pols", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "Dispersi\u00f3n de la luz", "Light absorption", "\u00d3ptica"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Yus D\u00edez, Jes\u00fas", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/2445/193136"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2445/193136", "name": "item", "description": "2445/193136", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2445/193136"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}], "links": [{"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "This document as GeoJSON", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=DESERTIFICATION&f=json", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "title": "This document as HTML", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=DESERTIFICATION&f=html", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection URL", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"type": "application/geo+json", "rel": "first", "title": "items (first)", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=DESERTIFICATION&", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "last", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "items (last)", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=DESERTIFICATION&offset=31", "hreflang": "en-US"}], "numberMatched": 31, "numberReturned": 31, "distributedFeatures": [], "timeStamp": "2026-07-27T06:58:00.675454Z"}