Additional information. The ranking of contaminants is calculated on the basis of the frequency a specific contaminant is reported to be the most important the investigated sites: Ranking = (number of countries reporting the specific contaminant as the most important)*2 + (number of countries reporting the specific contaminant as the second ...
assessment reports showing that degradation is a serious problem . The overall objective of the Strategy is (i) to prevent further degradation and to preserve its functions, and (ii) to restore degraded soils. The Strategy recognizes that certain threats, such as erosion, organic matter
The ‘Resources, Infrastructure and Capabilities Inventory (RICI)’ is an online platform for policy stakeholders. RICI provides access to a pool of specialized scientists and experts at local, regional and national level across . The RICI is like the "yellow pages" for expertise on . RICI is the catalogued scientific ...
The scientists call for a common framework to help national governments in their efforts to prevent and remediate contamination. Tracking progress across . An average of 3.6 contaminated sites per square kilometre of artificial surface are registered in the country inventories of EU Member States.
W2 Professorship in and Resources (m/f/d) at the Institute of Geography from 01.03.2024. We are looking for an outstanding scientist who can demonstrate internationally visible achievements in research and teaching as well as an above-average acquisition of third-party funds and thus make an important contribution to the ...
The major types of . with subsurface accumulation of low activity clay minerals and low base saturation (from the Latin, acris, meaning very acid). An Acrisol is a highly weathered occurring in warm temperate regions and the wetter parts of the tropics and subtropics. Acrisols have poor chemical properties, low levels of ...
In 2010, the Data Centre (ESDAC) of the Commission conducted a project to collect data on erosion from national institutions , using the Environment Information and Observation Network for (EIONET-). The aim of this paper is to present a selection of the results obtained for erosion ...
Abstract Compound events are extreme impacts that depend on multiple variables that need not be extreme themselves. In this study, we analyze moisture drought as a compound event of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) on multiple time scales related to both meteorological drought and heat waves in wet, transitional, and dry climates during summer.
Care will involve: (1) Review of existing data on -improving cropping systems; (2) Definition of what constitutes a -improving cropping system; (3) Evaluation of -improving cropping systems at 16 study sites ; (4) Modelling to upscale results from study sites in order to recommend -improving cropping systems for locations under various scenarios; (5 ...
The general concept of sustainable development has been specified in terms of goals, targets, and indicators by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015, followed by the Green Deal of the Union in 2019. The focus on targets and indicators does, however, not address the issue as to how these goals can be achieved for land-related SDGs in the real world, and attention in ...
salinization. The incremental loss and deterioration of 's resource is expected to continue, and will probably increase as a result of climate and land-use changes. From the Environmental Agency it was estimated that 220 million ha of (11% of the degraded soils worldwide) are degraded due to one or several of
Anthropogenic warming is anticipated to increase moisture drought in the future. However, projections are accompanied by large uncertainty due to varying estimates of future warming. Here, using an ensemble of hydrological and land-surface models, forced with bias-corrected downscaled general circulation model output, we estimate the ...
Paya Perez, A. and Rodriguez Eugenio, N., Status of local contamination : Revision of the indicator “Progress in the management contaminated sites ” , EUR 29124 EN, Publications Office of the Union, Luxembourg, 2018, ISBN 978-92-79-80073-3 (print),978-92-79-80072-6 (pdf), doi:10.2760/093804 (online),10.2760 ...
Here, we evaluated country-specific SCS potentials of agricultural land for 24 countries . Based on a detailed survey of available literature, we estimate that between 0.1% and 27% of the agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can potentially be compensated by SCS annually within the next decades.
Out of 24,759 visited LUCAS Topsoil sites, the surveyors recorded a total of 211 sites with gully erosion channels (equal to ca. 1% of total) (Fig. 2).The surveyors also registered the number of gullies observable from the visited LUCAS Topsoil sites (ranging length 1–420m from the LUCAS sampling point, with a median distance of 50m) and classified them into three different categories ...
A strategic research agenda to make better use of land and soils . and land use research is fragmented . Now, researchers and practitioners have developed a comprehensive agenda on key knowledge gaps that research needs to address for the benefit of society now and in the future.
The new Green Deal has the ambition to make the Union the first climate-neutral continent. by 2050. The Commission presented an ambitious package of measures within the ...
From ESDAC, we included only predictors of ecological relevance for plant species with full spatial coverage, namely, the 3D Hydraulic Database of (Tóth et al. 2017), the Database derived data (Hiederer 2013a, b) and the Topsoil Organic Content for (Jones et al. 2005). SoilGrids variables were chosen based on ...
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Horizon , the world’s largest multinational research and innovation programme, has issued its first call for grant applications. Over the next seven years, the Union’s giant ...
At each forest plot, we used a auger to sample the profile to a depth of 1 m, and divided it into five layers: 0–10 cm, 10–20 cm, 20–30 cm, 30–50 cm, and 50–100 cm. ...
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In 1986 the International Society of published the Map of Middle at scale 1:1,000,000 that implied the re-editing of part of the Map of the Communities with the addition of the maps of Austria and Switzerland.
Physical, biological, and chemical processes in the affect the balance in organic carbon compounds, and if they are released to the atmosphere as CO 2, or stored in the . This same process occurs with Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and all other materials. Water Filtration. Without and particles, water would be running on bare rocks!
Abstract. respiration constitutes the second largest flux of carbon (C) between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study provides a synthesis of respiration ( R s) in 20 grasslands across a climatic transect, including ten meadows, eight pastures and two unmanaged grasslands.
The faster decline of non-agricultural sources compared to agricultural sources has led to a consistent increase in the contribution of agricultural NO x emissions from 3.2% in 1990 to 5.9% in 2017 in Eastern , and from 3.8% in 1990 to 7.4% in 2017 in Western (figure 2 ). Figure 2.
Spain, Germany, and the continental average showed similar erosion rates. Overall, the Mediterranean is more threatened by erosion than the rest of . Download : Download high-res image (128KB) Download : Download full-size image; Fig. 8. erosion rates in vineyards by country or regions.
Also there are positive signals; in the recently proposed Green Deal, soils are identified as key element for achieving the ambitious target of a climate neutral Union by 2050, while sustaining the role of soils as a large biodiversity pool .
In total there are 6 categories: 0 - no . This represents water bodies, glaciers and rock outcrops. 1 - low susceptibility to compaction. 2. - medium susceptibility to compaction. 3. - high susceptibility to compaction. 4. - very high susceptibility to compaction. 9. - no evaluation possible.
The regional maps were developed based on the regional surveys and illustrate the bias existing in data for different regions. The map for the Rostov region was digitized by the Dokuchaev Institute based on the 1:300,000 map developed by Southern state design Institute for land management of the USSR in 1985.
Using model simulation to evaluate loss potential in diversified agricultural landscapes. Tobias Koch, Detlef Deumlich, Peter Chifflard, Kerstin Panten, Kathrin Grahmann. , e13332. First Published: 09 December 2022. Abstract.
Benchmarking Health across The recent proposal for a Monitoring and Resilience Directive by the Commission states that 60-70% of soils are currently considered unhealthy due to e.g. pollution, excess nutrients compaction and degradation. In light of this worrying figure, the SH&F mission has set the goal ...
The global organic carbon (SOC) stocks to 2 m of depth are estimated at approximately 2400 Gt C 6, which is three times the amount of carbon in the atmosphere 7. Small changes in SOC ...
Results indicate increase in their spatial extend (between 23% and 46%) and their duration (between 16% and 48%) depending on the period and the scenario. Additional analysis was performed for the exceptionally wide-area (over 10 6 km 2) severe and extreme moisture drought events that are expected to drastically increase comparing to the ...
Total carbon pools for the entire land area of the world, excluding carbon held in the litter layer and charcoal, amounts to 2157–2293 Pg of C in the upper 100¿cm. organic carbon is estimated to be 684–724 Pg of C in the upper 30¿cm, 1462–1548 Pg of C in the upper 100¿cm, and 2376–2456 Pg of C in the upper 200¿cm.
The simulations for forest NO emissions are in agreement with field observations by Van Dijk and Duyzer (1999) for a N-affected forest stand in the Netherlands and with results from field measurements of NO fluxes at several sites across within the NOFRETETE project (Pilegaard et al., 2006).
The negative impacts of sealing are numerous, from withdrawing fertile from biomass production to modifying the microclimate and decreasing biodiversity. Many of the processes are interrelated and propagate further undesirable consequences from local to global levels. Three issues are especially important from the viewpoint of multiscale ecological cycles and consequent environmental ...
2015. Description. Organic Matter in the Soils of Southern . Pandi Zdruli, Robert J.A. Jones and Luca Montanarella (2004). EUR 21083 EN, 16pp. Office for Official Publications of the Communities, Luxembourg.
Yang Zhang, Lu Liu, Qing Li, Qigen Dai, Jian Hu. Article 103452. View PDF. Article preview. Previous vol/issue. Read the latest articles of Journal of Biology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.
Publication metadata. is specified as the top layer of the Earth’s crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms. It is the interface between earth, air and water, and hosts most of the biosphere ( Commission, 2006). Soils must be understood as the base for life and for supporting livelihoods.