Acknowledgments
This project was funded by LINCGLOBAL 2021 under the title Circular economy and hydro sustainability for agriculture in vulnerable ecosystems of Andean and Mediterranean regions (LINCGLO0013). de Sosa thanks the Junta Andalucía and European Union for the research grant awarded in the area of the Andalusian Research Development and Innovation (PAIDI 2020). We are grateful to our students and technicians (Dario Nole, Pamela Zhumi, Diego González, Carlos Avila, Christian Mendoza, Sandro Reyes and Freddy Gutierrez) of EcoSs-Lab, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja who greatly assisted with soil sampling in the field and the technicians (Noelia Gonzalez, Cristina García de Arboleya, Patricia Puente and Carmen Navarro) of the ICA-IRNAS, CSIC team for their help in laboratory analysis. Funding for this study was provided in part by the Concurso Ecuatoriano de Proyectos CEPRA research grant XV-2021-017.