Mediterranean mountains are sensitive agroecosystems that have suffered intense land use and cover changes (LULCC) during the last century. From middle of twentieth century, most cultivated lands in were abandoned, allowing recovery vegetation (through natural revegetation afforestation programmes). To examine effects farmland abandonment, secondary succession (natural revegetation) afforestati...

This global systematic analysis and review investigate the impacts of previous land use system, climate zone, forest type age on soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), phosphorus (TP) stock, bulk density (BD) pH at layers 0–20, 20–60 60–100 cm, following afforestation. Data came from 91 publications SOC, TN TP stock changes, covering different countries zones. Overall, afforestation si...

Both forest management—especially tending—and afforestation help to enhance the carbon sequestration of vegetation. However, with limited resources, appropriate measures need be selected increase vegetation sinks based on regional endowments. This study aimed assess differences in effects and costs tending select suitable areas. In this paper, we used panel fixed models analyze conducted a hete...

Higher prices for hardwood stumpage and changes in agricultural policies may favor afforestation on sites in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) which are suitable for Eastern cottonwood (Popu/us de/toides Bartr.). We examined the potential returns to a landowner growing cottonwood on three soil classes common to the LMAV. We specified the conditions under which we think such afforesta...

Establishing trees in agricultural bottomlands is challenging because of intense competition, flooding and herbivory. A summary is presented of new practices and management systems for regenerating trees in former agricultural fields in the eastern USA. Innovations have come from improvements in planting stock and new silvicultural systems that restore ecological function more quickly than trad...

Restoration and maintenance of soil fertility is a basic but critical ecological problem especially in the tropics where the soils are nutrient deficient particularly P and N. The degraded soils are reclaimed through afforestation programmes with multifarious forest legume tree species along with beneficial microbes. Acacia nilotica, commonly known as Indian Gum-Arabic Tree and locally „Babul‟ ...

Most afforestation hardwood plantations in the Central Hardwood Forest Region, USA, are established with bareroot seedlings planted in late winter or early spring. This brief planting season is preferred for several logistical and physiological reasons, yet interest in fall planting has increased as a means to extend the planting season. We evaluated effects of a wide range of planting dates on...

Phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) is a stable carbon (C) fraction that has effects on long-term global C balance. Here, we report the phytolith and PhytOC accumulation in moso bamboo leaves developed on four types of parent materials. The results show that PhytOC content of moso bamboo varies with parent material in the order of granodiorite (2.0 g kg(-1)) > granite (1.6 g kg(-1)) > basalt (1....

Afforestation programs such as the one promoted by the EU Common Agricultural Policy have spread tree plantations on former cropland. These afforestations attract generalist forest and ubiquitous species but may cause severe damage to open habitat species, especially birds of high conservation value. We investigated the effects of young (<20 yr) tree plantations dominated by pine P. halepensis ...