The agricultural use of saline table olive processing wastewater enables the implementation closed water cycles in this socioeconomically important industry for rural southern Spain and relieves environmental, economic, legal burdens. To allow growers to evaluate guarantee adequate long-term soil plant conditions when irrigating with such regenerated wastewaters, efficient monitoring strategies...

Soil surface resistance increase quickly during the first three days after irrigation or rain event. By explicitly incorporating surface resistance in simple equations, daily total evaporation estimation of a drip-irrigated olive grove was significantly improved. This increase in soil surface resistance could explain why observed cumulative soil evaporation is higher in locations with lower irr...

The intensification of agriculture in olive groves, especially the modification or elimination spontaneous vegetation, alters relationships arthropod communities and reduces their interactions ecosystem services. This study was carried out nine groves which there either a planted cover crop, crop bare ground. ground-dwelling, canopy flying arthropods trophic webs were calculated for each grove ...

This work has studied for the first time the structure and diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) infesting olive orchard soils in a wide-region in Spain that included 92 locations. It aims at determining which agronomical or environmental factors associated to the olive orchards are the main drivers of the PPNs community structure and diversity. Classical morphological and morphometric ...

The ages of veteran olive trees forming a grove located in the north island Malta were investigated using radiocarbon dating. This approach revealed that from Bidnija established during mid-late Medieval period, before CE 1450–1669, rather than considerably earlier Roman times when surrounding agrarian landscape was thought to be an important production area for olives. dating exercise highligh...

Terrestrial reptiles are threatened by numerous anthropogenic activities, including agriculture. Many agricultural methods and techniques affect the herpetofauna located in oldest known tree crops Mediterranean Basin, olive trees. For first time, we present a case of unintentional capture (and killing) 12 snake-eyed skinks Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833) on ...

Agricultural intensification is a persistent and growing threat to biodiversity worldwide. Olive groves cover extensive areas in the Mediterranean basin play fundamental role as refuge wintering quarters for many bird species, but effects of their current on communities remain unclear. This study aims evaluate response birds management olive with different degrees (traditional, intensive super-...