Soil Science Directory

Abstract. New challenges and policy developments after 2015 (among others, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) are opportunities for scientists and erosion modellers to respond with more accurate assessments and solutions as to how to reduce erosion and furthermore, how to reach Zero Net ...

and droughts. While is often perceived to be abundant, it is a non-renewable resource. It takes around 100 years for 1cm of to form in temperate climates. Still, according to the 2012 report of the Joint Research Centre “State of the ” there is an estimate of 3 million potentially contaminated sites ,

Most profiles in the WISE database came from five main sources: (a) ISRIC's Information System, ISIS (Van de Ven & Tempel, 1994); (b) the Database System (SDB) of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO, 1989); (c) digital data compiled by the National Conservation Service of the United States of America (NRCS); (d) profiles obtained by WISE project staff from national ...

provides the basis for. 90 % of all human food production . Its fertility is particularly important as the world’s population is set to increase dramatically, from 7.3 billion people today to 11.2 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations. Healthy is also vital for our environment, as it not only filters and cleans tens of ...

Physics and Healthy Cropland Cultivation. Submission deadline: Saturday, 15 June 2024. physics is at the heart of sustainable management of ecosystems. It is fundamental to global food, water and energy security, especially in the face of global climate change and increasingly anthropogenic activities.

Three LUCAS surveys have been carried out over the past 10 years, collecting samples of EU topsoil in 2009/2012 (22,000 samples), 2015 (23,000 samples) and 2018 (26,000 samples). The samples, about 0.5kg each, are stored and analysed in a central laboratory, and the analysed data are hosted by the (ESDAC).

We measured decreased TP, Fe-P, O-P and Ca 10-P in the 40–100-cm layer following maize straw and biochar deposition, whereas higher Ca 2-P, Al-P, MROP and HROP were obtained in maize straw-supplemented relative to NPK fertiliser treatment in the 20–100-cm layer. Thus, maize straw and its biochar can be used to effectively ...

The processing of data on into meaningful information products – such as maps - requires a workflow of collection, organization and management, analysis and publication of data. Harmonized methods and data infrastructures will allow easier sharing of data , which is essential for research and for policy advice on ...

The 6 th Eurasian Partnership plenary meeting took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 23-24 May 2023. In 2021 the Book «Sustainable Management in Eurasian Region» was published. It provides a detailed overview of the implementation of sustainable management practices in the Eurasian sub-region, as the result of the regional ...

The results indicate that the main factor influencing degradation was land-use change: when compared with the baseline business-as-usual landscape, the landscape with the most intensive agricultural systems had the greatest erosion (+0.26 t ha −1 year −1) and reduced mean SOC stocks (−17 t ha −1 after 90 years). The second ...

This dataset contains the erosion estimations resulting of a study that mapped post-fire erosion in EU and UK following the 2017’s wildfires during 5 post-fire years. Five maps (GeoTIFF) and their corresponding dataframe (Rdata) are provided at 25m resolution, from year 1 (2017) to year 5 (2021). Resource Type: Datasets.

Physical protection of uncomplexed organic matter and organisms and the creation of gas and moisture gradients are emergent features regulating the turnover at this level of complexity. The structurally intact (the in situ) constitutes the third level of complexity. This integrates the effects of primary and secondary complexes.