Scientific literature reports mixed results in terms of crop yields grown in soils amended with biochar and compost. These discrepancies are mainly attributed to the heterogeneity of waste materials used, the production processes, and the application rates. To address the challenge of reducing synthetic fertilizer inputs in the Mediterranean area, three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of biochar, compost, and...

Conservation translocations are becoming common conservation practice, so there is an increasing need to understand the drivers of plant translocation performance through reviews of cases at global and regional levels. The establishment of the Italian Database of Plant Translocation (IDPlanT) provides the opportunity to review the techniques used in 186 plant translocation cases performed in the last 50 years in the heart of t...