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.