Soil Science Directory

The LUCAS- survey already monitors most of the properties needed to estimate multifunctionality using the Navigator DSS. Crucial attributes that are still missing for monitoring functions at the scale include bulk density and biological data (van Leeuwen et al., 2017).

Background is one of our most important resources and fulfills many ecological functions such as storage and filtration of water and nutrients, transformation of chemical compounds and nutrients, biomass production, and carbon storage. Such functions support ecosystem services provided by soils, which need to be protected to protect fertility. However, soils often ...

Background to Position & Project. This competition seeks to recruit a postdoctoral researcher focused on modelling the impact of management on ecosystem carbon flows and changes in organic carbon (SOC). This position will join a well-resourced team of permanent and contract staff investigating the impact of management on C fluxes and have ...

High-yielding forage grass cultivars increase root biomass and organic carbon stocks compared with mixed-species permanent pasture in temperate . Andrew S. Gregory, Adrian Joynes, Elizabeth R. Dixon, Deborah A. Beaumont, Phil J. Murray, Mike W. Humphreys, Goetz M. Richter, Jennifer A. J. Dungait. , e13160.

, a component of land, is considered polluted when contaminants adversely affect human health or the environment. With every step we take, we could be standing on top of a very different mix and concentration of contaminants in the ground. The large variation of contaminants, soils, and climatic and land use conditions makes it costly to ...

These 24 colours show the global classification of major types. Each type has its physical, chemical and biological properties, as it is composed of minerals, organic matter, air and water, and hosts many living organisms. classification is important because it reflects not only these properties, but also how soils were formed ...

degradation can have serious negative impacts on agricultural production and the environment. However, it is only since the 1980s that awareness on the negative impacts of agricultural intensification on water and resources has been expressed in agricultural policies and conservation interventions (see Louwagie et al.in this volume).

Ploughing crop residues or green manure into the can be counted among conventional practices, but these are the quickest and probably the most effective measures to favour particle aggregation, thereby retaining a greater proportion of organic carbon within the . In the Central countries, that mostly fall within the ...

The new Monitoring Law provides a legal framework to help achieve healthy soils by 2050. It will do so by. putting in place a solid and coherent monitoring framework for all soils across the EU so Member States can take measures to regenerate degraded soils. making sustainable management the norm in the EU.