ESM 1. Electronic Supplementary Material 1

ESM_1. Electronic Supplementary Material 1

Fragmentation modulates the strong impact of habitat quality and plant cover on fertility and microbial activity of semiarid gypsum soils

Plant and Soil

Ana Lázaro-Nogal, Silvia Matesanz, Teresa E. Gimeno, Adrián Escudero and Fernando Valladares

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC

Email: [email protected]

Online resource 1. Monthly precipitation at the study site (Huelves meteorological station,

15 km from the study site, data provided by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Meteorología).

Columns represent monthly mean precipitation, during the period 1948–2007 (grey) and in the two years studied, 2005 (black) and 2006 (white). Worth to note the very dry spring conditions of the study years, 2005 and 2006, in comparison with the long-term average.