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Pesticide use has shown the efficiency in protection of crops against pests, but also of some unwanted effects as persistence, biomagnification efficiency and impact on non-target organisms. Although their use become more conscientious and restricted in the last decades, they still could be found in different environmental compartments as water, especially due to their physicochemical properties and over use from past. The goal to increase water environment quality, opened the requirement to find optimal and eco-f...

Human activities as land use and management impact soil functioning. These are amplified also by stress factors as extreme climate events (drought, flood, heat waves) and meteorological anomalies, consequence of climate change. Although there are clues on how these challenging factors affect quality and functioning at its top surface (between 0 пїЅ 15 cm), there are minor information on how these impact soil in its depth profile. This study present obtained data from assessment studies performed on agricultural la...

Feedbacks of soil ecosystems to climate change depend on its dynamics, thus soil ecosystems can directly and indirectly respond to climate change. Literature proved that warming directly alters microbial communities by increasing their activity. Also, climate change may also alter plant community, which consequently will impact indirectly, thus altering the soil communities that depend on their inputs. Thus, soil microbial community is responsible for a variety of soil provided ecosystem services, given their role...