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The parameters assessed reflected changes in herbaceous plant cover, biomass as well as soil physical and hydrological properties. The main findings were by and large specific for the grazing level. This supports the argument for devolution of management responsibility to the local level where there is indigenous site-specific knowledge but at the same time insufficient management capacity. A comparison of composite soil samples taken at a depth of 0-10 cm did not differentiate significantly between treatments. This is probably because the composite soil sampling procedure hid the properties of the top first few centimeters. Grazing pressure had a tendency to reduce total above ground biomass (p = 0.081). This was related to increased biomass removal and the trampling pressure (static load) exerted by the animals. The infiltration measurements indicated that the deleterious impact of cattle trampling increased as stocking rate increased. Livestock grazing significantly (p = 0.038) lowered the infiltrability. Prescribed early fire had a tendency (p = 0.073) to reduce the soil water infiltration rate. The subplots subjected to prescribed burning had a lower steady state infiltration rate compared to unburnt areas (means of 49.2 \u00b1 27.5 mm h-1 versus 78 \u00b1 70.5 mm h-1 for burnt and unburnt subplots, respectively). A partial least squares projection to latent structures showed that 34% of the steady state infiltrability was explained by the stocking rate and soil organic matter. Also all soil characteristics were significantly connected to steady state infiltrability suggesting that they are related to the soil hydrological response to trampling. From a management perspective, adoption of a short duration grazing system should avoid high stocking rates because they may adversely affect soil infiltrability, increase susceptibility to erosion in the savannas and decrease biomass productivity.", "keywords": ["soil compaction", "2. Zero hunger", "vegetation", "13. Climate action", "trampling", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grazing", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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The warmer and drier climate projected for this region will further increase the risk of wildfire occurrence and recurrence. Although the impact of wildfires on soil nutrient content in this region has been extensively studied, still few works have assessed this impact on the basis of fire recurrence. This study assesses the changes in soil organic C and nutrient status of mineral soils in two Southern European areas, V\u00e1rzea (Northern Portugal) and Valencia (Eastern Spain), affected by different levels of fire recurrence and where short fire intervals have promoted a transition from pine woodlands to shrublands. At the short-term (<1year), the amount of soil organic matter was higher in burned than in unburned soils while its quality (represented as labile to total organic matter) was actually lower. In any case, total and labile soil organic matter showed decreasing trends with increasing fire recurrence (one to four fires). At the long-term (>5years), a decline in overall soil fertility with fire recurrence was also observed, with a drop between pine woodlands (one fire) and shrublands (two and three fires), particularly in the soil microsites between shrubs. Our results suggest that the current trend of increasing fire recurrence in Southern Europe may result in losses or alterations of soil organic matter, particularly when fire promotes a transition from pine woodland to shrubland. The results also point to labile organic matter fractions in the intershrub spaces as potential early warning indicators for shifts in soil fertility in response to fire recurrence.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Microsite", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Early warning indicators", "Soil quality", "13. 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In all  sites, we compared soil conditions in ancient and postagricultural forest  parcels. Sheet 2: Nematode community Nematode composition in soil samples  collected in three different forest sites in Flanders (Belgium); at each  site ancient parcels and post-agricultural parcels were sampled. Sheet 3:  Data info of characteristics of species in the introduction experiment  Data on basic plant traits of plants reintroduced in post-agricultural and  ancient parcels in the Muizen forest (Belgium). For each plant we  meassured: length in cm, number of stems, number of holes in leaves,  number of leaves, number of leaves with signs of herbivory, proportion of  leaves showing herbivory marks, herbivory index. Sheet 4: Invertebrate  abundance on surveyed plants along transects in the Muizen forest, Belgium  Invertebrate abundance was assessed for all plants present along 10m x 1m  transects in the Muizen forest in Belgium. We compared invertebrate  abundance in post-agricultural forest parcels and ancient parcels. Sheet  5: Vegetation plots Data on vegetation plots. Plots 10 x 10m. For each  forest site i.e. Muizen forest, Aelmoeseneie(ALM) and Doode Bemde six  parcels were sampled; 3 on ancient forest parcels and 3 on  postagricultural. For each plot the understory vegetation was recorded.  Sheet 6: Vegetation transects Comparison of plant species in the  understory along transects in the Muizen forest. 10 transect surveys were  conducted in ancient forest plots and 10 in post-agricultural. Sheet 7:  Ecoplates For the characterization of the soil microbial community we used  a method that measures by spectrometric quantification the utilization by  microbes of different carbon substrates in microtiter plates (EcoPlates\u00ae).  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