<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardelli, R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marchini, F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saviozzi, A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil organic matter characteristics, biochemical activity and antioxidant capacity in Mediterranean land use systems</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil and Tillage Research</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">C mineralization</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land use</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mediterranean environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil antioxidant capacity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil quality indices</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167198712000074</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">120</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8 - 14</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The characteristics of soil quality were measured in adjacent agricultural (horticultural cropping sequence, HC), native grassland (naturally grazed, NG) and forest (indigenous wood of holm-oak, F) soils. The objective of the research was to assess the inﬂuence of different land uses on soil organic matter characteristics, biochemical activity and antioxidant capacity in selected ﬁelds of the Mediterranean environment in central Italy under a speciﬁc climatic regime. Land use induced signiﬁcant changes in the content and quality of soil organic matter, biochemical activity and antioxidant capacity, with more pronounced differences between soils under HC and F than soils under HC and NG. The HC soil showed the lowest amounts of total organic carbon (TOC), microbial biomass C (MB-C), water-soluble organic C (WSOC), water- and alkali-soluble phenols. The organic matter of HC was characterized by the lowest percentage of MB-C and of light fraction carbon (LF-C). The dehydrogenase activity (DH-ase), metabolic potential (MP), hydrolyzing coefﬁcient (HyC), potentially mineralizable C (C0) and C mineralized (Cm) were clearly lower in HC. The speciﬁc respiration activity of biomass (qCO2) was the highest in HC soil (1.3 mg CO2–C mg biomass C 1 ) and lowest in F soil (0.5 mg CO2–C mg biomass C 1 ) and was inversely related with pH, TOC and MB-C contents. The antioxidant capacity of soils (TEAC) was the highest in NG and related to the amount of alkali-soluble phenols. The rate constant of organic matter mineralization (k) appeared to depend on TEAC rather than the relative amounts of the labile C pools. These results seem to explain the role of phenols as controller of the mineralization rate of organic matter.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier B.V.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schirone, Bartolomeo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salis, Antonello</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vessella, Federico</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effectiveness of the Miyawaki method in Mediterranean forest restoration programs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscape and Ecological Engineering</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ecological restoration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ecotechnology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mediterranean environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">potential natural vegetation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">reforestation practices comparison</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s11355-010-0117-0</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">81 - 92</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In the 1980s, Professor Akira Miyawaki introduced a new and innovative reforestation approach in Japan with the challenge to restore indigenous ecosystems, and maintaining global environments, including disaster prevention and carbon dioxide (CO2 ) mitigation. Here, natural vegetation successional stages (from bare soil to mature forest) are practically forced and reproduced, accelerating natural successional times. The Miyawaki method has been applied in the Far East, Malaysia, and South America; results have been very impressive, allowing quick environmental restorations of strongly degraded areas. However, these applications have always been made on sites characterized by high precipitation. The same method has never been used in a Mediterranean context distinguished by summer aridity and risk of desertiﬁcation. A ﬁrst test was carried out by the University of Tuscia, Department of Forest and Environment (DAF), 11 years ago in Sardinia (Italy) on an area where traditional reforestation methods had failed. For an appropriate Miyawaki application on this site, the original method was modiﬁed while maintaining its theoretical principles. Results obtained 2 and 11 years after planting are positive: having compared the traditional reforestation techniques, plant biodiversity using the Miyawaki method appears very high, and the new coenosis (plant community) was able to evolve without further operative support after planting. Therefore, the implementation of supplementary technique along with cost reduction might provide a new and innovative tool to foresters and ecological engineering experts for Mediterranean environmental reforestation program.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blasco, Begona</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rubio-Wilhelmi, Maria M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanchez-Rodriguez, Eva</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chirosa, Manuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruiz, Juan M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rosua, Jose L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Romero, Luis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Serrano, Francisco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruiz, Juan M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rosua, Jose L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Romero, Luis</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nutritional analysis of six forest species grown in two different edaphological conditions in a Mediterranean environment: II. Do pigments serve as a non-destructive diagnostic method?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JOURNAL OF FOOD AGRICULTURE &amp; ENVIRONMENT</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">forest species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mediterranean environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">nitrogen metabolism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pigment</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1034 - 1039</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The species studied were Quercus rotundifolia,Juniperus oxycedrus,Retama sphaerocarpa, Cistus albidus, Phlomis lychnitis and Daphne
gnidium, which were grown in two different soils that differed in pH 6.0
(Llano de la Perdiz) and 8.0 (Sierra Elvira), both zones in Granada
(Spain) and under analogous environmental conditions (1). The
chlorophyll content in its different forms showed that in the Llano de
la Perdiz C. albidus presented a greater content than did Q.
rotundifolia. Comparable behaviour was found in the area of Sierra
Elvira. In the case of the carotenoids, Q. rotundifolia presented the
lowest values in both zones. For lycopene, great differences were found
between species but not between zones. The lowest content was found in
J. oxycedrus and Q. rotundifolia, and the highest one was registered by
C. albidus and R. sphaerocarpa, with a content of 40% more than the
others. In the case of anthocyanins, Q. rotundifolia and R lychnitis
were notable for their low content in Llano de la Perdiz. This same
phenomenon was repeated in Sierra Elvira. This clearly indicates a
direct relationship between the chlorophyll level and the nutrient
content, as well as the relationship of the environmental conditions
with respect to the content of non-photosynthetic pigments. The high
content of pigments, photosynthetic or not, in these plants makes them
capable of resisting such extreme environmental conditions in which they
grow.
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3-4, 2</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: MERI-RASTILANTIE 3 C, HELSINKI, FI-00980, FINLAND&lt;br/&gt;publisher: WFL PUBL</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Focardi, Stefano</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tinelli, Aleandro</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Herbivory in a Mediterranean forest: browsing impact and plant compensation</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acta Oecologica</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Browsing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mediterranean environment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">plant compensation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Relative growth rate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ungulates</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1146609X05000731</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">239 - 247</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The compensatory response of plants to defoliation is likely to have important effects on plant–ungulate equilibria in forested ecosystems. We investigated the responses of six species of Mediterranean bushes to defoliation by wild ungulates, comparing an index of browsing impact with the productivity of plants in both open and exclusion plots. The data revealed a great diversity of plant responses to herbivory: Rubus ulmifolius was able to over-compensate and replace the lost tissues. Phillyrea latifolia exhibited a similar, albeit less evident, pattern, while Cistus salvifolius was severely damaged by browsing. Other species, such as Quercus ilex, Juncus acutus and Erica arborea, were not attacked to a large extent and suffered little or no harm. The results strongly suggest that Mediterranean ecosystems may tolerate large stocking rates of ungulates. However, the reduction of plant biomass due to browsing was very different in the six studied species, suggesting that when herbivory becomes severe the structure of the ecosystem will change with the more tolerant plants becoming more abundant. We can apply these results to improve management and conservation of relict coastal forests in the Mediterranean basin which are usually of small size and where decision-makers have to compromise between the conservation of plants and that of large mammals.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue></record></records></xml>