Due to congenital features, avocado (Persea Americana Mill.) trees are substantial water users relative to other fruit trees. The current growing deficiency of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid avocado-producing ...

La Reserva Forestal protectora Regional Farallones del Citará, zona objeto de este estudio, se localiza en la Cordillera Occidental de Colombia y representa uno de los refugios más importantes de flora y fauna silvestres, ...

Extreme drought events and increasing aridity are leading to forest decline and tree mortality, particularly in populations near the limits of the species distribution. Therefore, a better understanding of the growth ...

While much is known about the factors that control each component of the terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycle, it is less clear how these factors affect total N availability, the sum of organic and inorganic forms potentially ...

Systematic forest networks of health monitoring have been established to follow changes in tree vigor and mortality. These networks often lack long-term growth data, but they could be complemented with tree ring data, since ...

Forests are key elements in mitigating the effects of climate change due to the fact of their carbon sequestration capacity. Forest management can be oriented to optimise the carbon sequestration capacity of forest stands, ...

In Lebanon, the demand for water resources for domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural use is increasing dramatically (Jaber, 1997), due to rapid population growth and demographic change (EMWATER, 2004). In ...

Previous research has provided insights into the potential response of growth and water use efficiency to thinning in Mediterranean forests, but little is known about the potential benefits of silviculture for plantations ...

The purpose of this study was to assess desertification and to study the effects of land use change and climate change on hydrological variables in El Asi-Orontes watershed (Lebanon). This work presents a validated model ...

Feeding a growing population, which will reach 10 billion in 2050, is a major challenge. Another major challenge is to increase crops’ productivity in a sustainable way, as the increase in agricultural inputs may lead to ...