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Tillage, Mulch, Fire and Cover: Soil Management Impacts on Degraded Terraces in Mediterranean Olive Groves

Soil degradation on abandoned or poorly managed terraces in the Mediterranean region poses a significant threat to the resilience of agroecosystems, particularly in hillside olive groves where erosion and nutrient depletion accelerate land abandonment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the short-term effects of five different soil management practices (grass cover, organic mulch, herbicide application, pile burning and tillage) on soil physical and chemical properties, hydrological respon...

The efficacy of scientific diagrams during the COVID-19 pandemic: processes of visual translation and dynamics of online diffusion

The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020 led to an immediate and unprecedented media coverage of scientific and health issues. Experts and scientists were called upon to urgently communicate to citizens the extent of the danger and the measures required to contain it. They thus conceived and developed visual artifacts which could efficiently communicate scientific content to a wider public. This paper specifically examines the scientific chart that dominated the political and nationa...

The Shapes of the Future(s) Representing Catastrophe and its Alternatives in Diagrams

The timeframe of scientific research into climate change deals with a recent past that departs from the longer timespans that have preceded it to speculate on future developments. This essay analyses the graphic form of time series used to communicate this phenomenon, with a focus on trendlines and fork graphs. These configurations are used to express, on a quantitative basis, the risks and escape routes from the imminent catastrophe. These images represent the future in the form of possibili...