DOMÍNGUEZ NÚÑEZ , María Teresa

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The application of organic amendments is a common practice in the restoration of contaminated and degraded soils. We designed an experiment in pot mesocosms to study the effect of organic amendment (comparing a short-term addition of biosolid compost with soils amended 17 years ago) and soil legacy (comparing soils exposed or not to extensive...

La regeneración natural de las poblaciones de árboles, como el alcornoque (Quercus suber) y el quejigo (Q. canariensis), depende en gran parte del éxito en la supervivencia durante las primeras fases de semilla y plántula. Estas semillas tienen un gran valor nutritivo y sufren grandes pérdidas durante la fase post-dispersiva. En el presente...

Establishing energy crops could be a cost-efficient alternative towards the valorization of the plant biomass produced in contaminated lands, where they would not compete with food production for land use. Dittrichia viscosa and Silybum marianum are two native Mediterranean species recently identified as potential energy crops for degraded...

Uranium (U) contamination due to mining and metallurgical operations is a serious problem and poses a high potential threat to humans and other organisms. The application of amendments and/or plants, known as assisted phytoremediation, can accelerate the adsorption, complexation and precipitation processes in soil, and therefore can facilitate...

Fungi play a key role in the functioning of soil in terrestrial ecosystems, and in particular in the remediation of degraded soils. The contribution of fungi to carbon and nutrient cycles, along with their capability to mobilise soil trace elements, is well-known. However, the importance of life history strategy for these functions has not yet...

There is an increasing consensus that microbial communities have an important role in mediating ecosystem processes. Trait-based ecology predicts that the impact of the microbial communities on ecosystem functions will be mediated by the expression of their traits at community level. The link between the response of microbial community traits...