Abstract Coastal dunes are extremely fragile and threatened ecotones, which play a key environmental role in terms of functional connection between terrestrial marine ecosystems. To counteract the hydrogeological vulnerability coastal risk areas, reliance can be made on soil bioengineering techniques, consisting planting native species combination with natural inert materials. These interventio...

Shrub encroachment (SE) is a phenomenon in which grasses and herbaceous vegetation are replaced by woody shrubs. Many previous studies have highlighted the effects of SE on soil respiration rates nutrient storage, but little known about impacts microbiota. While work considered shrubs to be non-species specific or as single intervening species, we selected an Ampelodemsos mauritanicus grassland...

Pistacia lentiscus L. is a dioecious shrub or small tree with high drought resistance, native in the entire Mediterranean basin. The variety ‘Chia’ (mastic tree) cultivated for production of mastic gum (a resin produced after wounding trunks and thick branches) Island Chios (Greece), but it also has significant ornamental value. In present study, ten male female genotypes P. var. Chia from natu...

Andriana Kaliora, 70 El. Venizelou Ave., 176 71 Kallithea, Athens, Greece Tel: ++3019549303-306, Fax: ++3019577050, e-mail: [email protected] Pistacia lentiscus var. Chia (Anacardiaceae) is a tree unique to the island of Chios and grows only in the Southern part of the island. A resinous exudate is produced after longitudinal incisions are made at close intervals from the base of the trunk up to ...