Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: Results suggest that IRVAS, summer drought and grazing favour the coexistence of species, through improved functional diversity in seed and plant sizes and increased abundance of spring annuals, the most species-rich functional group.

TL;DR: Results provided evidence for the greater importance of germination and emergence in comparison with seedling survival to insure reproductive recruitment in this community, and supported the multivariate causal explanation of plant recruitment.

TL;DR: It is concluded that initial oak regeneration triggered by small planted islets in Mediterranean abandoned farmland is slowed down by high acorn predation, seedling herbivory, and stressful microclimatic conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a factorial experiment with combinations of seasonal grazing by sheep and irrigation (simulating different precipitation regimes) was conducted to assess their effects on the soil macroinvertebrate communities (SMC) of a semiarid Mediterranean old field.