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Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Pine Forests under Different Silvicultural and Climatic Regimes in Spain
(MDPI, 2022)
Proactive silviculture treatments (e.g., thinning) may increase C sequestration contributing to climate change mitigation, although, there are still questions about this effect in Mediterranean pine forests. The aim of ...
Land Suitability for Biological Wastewater Treatment in Lebanon and the Litani River Basin Using Fuzzy Logic and Analytical Hierarchy Process
(MDPI, 2022)
Biological wastewater treatment (BWWT) has been demonstrated to be a suitable procedure to degrade organic pollutants by utilizing natural processes. This paper presents a validated model to map land suitability for BWWT ...
Soil Management, Irrigation, and Fertilisation Strategies for N2O Emissions Mitigation in Mediterranean Agricultural Systems
(MDPI, 2022)
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 ...
Integración del patrimonio natural y redes de infraestructura verde como mejora de los bienes públicos del olivar con orientación turístico-recreativa
(UCOPress, 2022)
El paisaje del olivar tradicional viene sufriendo distintos riesgos agravados por la actual crisis del sector, su simplificación, abandono, o arranque, y sus efectos en la población local y en su valor natural hacen necesario ...
Bruising pattern of table olives (‘Manzanilla’ and ‘Hojiblanca’ cultivars) caused by hand-held machine harvesting methods
(Elsevier, 2022)
This work presents a characterisation of the fruit and the bruising caused by some common
detachment methods (manual, stick, shaker comb, branch shaker) and interception
methods (net or padding) in common table olive ...
Effect of leaves in the dynamic response of olive tree branches and their computational model
(Elsevier, 2022)
The application of vibration in the mechanical harvesting of fruit trees is a determining factor to achieve fruit
detachment. The acceleration required to do so is experimentally determined in expensive tests using ...
Scorch height and volume modeling in prescribed fires: effects of canopy gaps in Pinus pinaster stands in Southern Europe
(Elsevier, 2022)
The use of prescribed fire has been on the rise in recent years owing to its effectiveness in surface fuel reduction, its implementation cost, and the possibility of firefighter training. However, greater knowledge regarding ...
Can trees buffer the impact of climate change on pasture production and digestibility of Mediterranean dehesas?
(Elsevier, 2022)
Sustainability of silvopastoral ecosystems under future scenarios of climate change
remains poorly studied. Assessing the potential mitigation role of trees on biomass
productivity and quality is timely to face the ...
Permanent grasslands in Europe: Land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality
(Elsevier, 2022)
Permanent grasslands cover 34% of the European Union’s agricultural area and are vital for a wide variety of ecosystem services essential for our society. Over recent decades, the permanent grassland area has declined and ...
Estimating pasture quality of Mediterranean grasslands using hyperspectral narrow bands from field spectroscopy by Random Forest and PLS regressions
(Elsevier, 2022)
Mediterranean grasslands are a cornerstone ecosystem to provide ecosystem services and sustain human societies. The sustainability and provision of ecosystem services by these systems rely on their management. One of the ...