[EN] Soil erosion is a key cause of land degradation in agriculture lands; and it is a worldwide threat that must be solved by means of nature-based strategies to be able to achieve sustainability. The use of mulches can ...
[EN] Due to the reduction in the prices of oranges on the market and social changes such as the ageing of the population, traditional orange plantation abandonment in the Mediterranean is taking place. Previous research ...
Di Prima, Simone; Bagarello, Vincenzo; Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael; Bautista, Inmaculada; Cerda, Artemi; Campo García, Antonio Dámaso del; González Sanchis, María del Carmen; Iovino, Massimo; Lassabatere, Laurent; Maetzke, Federico(De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o., 2017)
[EN] In Mediterranean ecosystems, special attention needs to be paid to forest¿water relationships due to water
scarcity. In this context, Adaptive Forest Management (AFM) has the objective to establish how forest resources ...
[EN] Economic, social, and climatic conditions affect agricultural production. Those changes are relevant to the rainfed agricultural areas of the Mediterranean Belt, including Spain-the largest producer of olive oil in ...
[EN] Land abandonment is widespread in the Mediterranean mountains. The impact of agricultural abandonment
results in a shift in ecosystem evolution due to changes in soil erosion, but little is known about long-term ...
Cerda, Artemi; Rodrigo-Comino, J.; Giménez Morera, Antonio; Novara, A.; Pulido, M.; Kapovic-Solomun, M.; Keesstra, Saskia(Elsevier, 2018-06)
[EN] There is a need to devise management strategies that control soil and water losses in agriculture land to allow the design of proper policies to achieve sustainability. It is the responsibility of scientists to work ...
[EN] Floods are a consequence of extreme rainfall events. Although surface runoff generation is the origin of discharge, flood research usually focuses on lowlands where the impact is higher. Runoff and sediment delivery ...
Cerda, Artemi; Keesstra, Saskia; Rodrigo-Comino, J.; Novara, A.; Pereira, Paulo; Brevik, Erik; Giménez Morera, Antonio; Fernández-Raga, M.; Pulido, M.; Di Prima, Simone; Jordán, A.(Elsevier, 2017-11-01)
[EN] Rainfall-induced soil erosion is a major threat, especially in agricultural soils. In the Mediterranean belt, vineyards are affected by high soil loss rates, leading to land degradation. Plantation of new vines is ...