Assessing biodiversity potentials – PubMed

The current knowledge on the effects of physico-chemical properties on biota and the available data at continental scale open the way towards such an evaluation. In this study, the habitat potential for biodiversity was assessed and mapped for the first time throughout by combining several features (pH, texture and ...

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in Conservation Agricultural Systems – MDPI

Dear Colleagues, Global health is deteriorating due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, increasing population and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted around the world as an alternative strategy to address degradation resulting from organic matter and nutrient content depletion, sustain crop productivity with lower production ...

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Three post-doc scientists (f_m_x) in multiscale erosion …

An established collaboration with Commission Observatory (Led by JRC), the University of Basel and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Working place. The place of work is University Roma Tre at Leonardo Murialdo campus. The affiliation will be with the Department of , Section for Geology, 00146, Rome RM, Italy.

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The average stock of C was calculated for all non-organic soils (i.e. less than 5% C); arable soils were assumed to be placed at random on soils of different C content, so the average stock of C arable soils is equal the average C stock of non-organic soils —about 53 t C ha −1 for 0–30 cm depth (Smith et al ...

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Professor of – ESDAC – Commission

71 raster data (GeoTIFF) derived from the Database v2. 16. Apr. 2024. EU Observatory (EUSO team) has published 46 scientific papers in 2023. 10. Apr. 2024. For the entire EU, we provide estimates of sediments removal costs based on 3 quantification methods as documented in the publication.

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SOILS: BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

This book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding scientist who recently retired from university teaching and research. It is a fully up-to-date synthesis of the present knowledge of soils, their genesis, functions and management. It includes contributions from leading scientists and the result is a ...

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Tailor-made | – World Information

Web-based digital maps help policymakers and scientists to find the data they need for their models or decisions in fields such as land management and biodiversity conservation. The EU's Institute for Environment and Sustainability in Ispra, Italy, is the focal point for information at the level.

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Digital Map of the World |

Digital information is likely to be welcomed by such groups. For example, GSM will focus on providing inputs (e.g., texture, organic carbon, and -depth parameters) to -Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer models that are used to predict land-cover changes in response to anticipated climatic and human disturbances across the globe.

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Progress in erosion research: A perspective

We start by noting that erosion research is firmly rooted in geomorphology, in contrast to the mainly agronomic foundations of North American erosion research. , the importance of field-based surveys of erosion has been emphasized by the findings of a few regional-scale, long-term monitoring exercises, most recently that ...

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Author Guidelines – Journal of – Wiley …

The Journal of (EJSS) is an international journal that publishes outstanding papers in that advance the theoretical and mechanistic understanding of physical, chemical and biological processes and their interactions in soils acting from molecular to continental scales in natural and managed environments, as ...

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“Data‐driven” versus “question‐driven” research – Baveye …

One can easily make the case that in in general, given the inherent complexity and heterogeneity of the material we work with, it is pointless to acquire data in the absence of a clear question that requires an answer. 1 Indeed, very different information about organic matter needs to be obtained, depending on whether one ...

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Unearthing perspectives: the new health law

Source: Commission. The health dashboard supports the Commission proposal for a health law and indicators proposed by the Mission of the EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon , revealing that the most common types of degradation appear to be loss of organic carbon (53%), the loss of ...

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Global Atlas – ESDAC – Commission

Global Atlas. The Atlas describes as habitat for the diversity of organisms that live under our feet. At the same time, it draws attention to the threats to , such as invasive species, pollution, intensive land use pracu0002tices or climate change. The Atlas provides current solutions for a sustainable ...

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Bringing soils to life in the human and social sciences

Abstract. Despite their key importance for ecosystems and societies, soils have long remained a peripheral topic in the human and social sciences. Our paper aims to account for the recent, fast-growing literature in human and social sciences on soils. We first highlight social sciences’ shared concern for unsettling common visions of as ...

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Zoom into : Journal of and EU …

The British Society of (BSSS) is delighted to announce the next Zoom into webinar will take place on Wednesday 7 February from 12:00 - 1:00pm (UK time) and is free of charge to register. Join Professor Jenni Dungait, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of , and Dr Cristina Arias-Navarro, Scientific Project ...

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Organic carbon in Austria – Status quo and foreseeable …

In forest soils, about 20% of SOC are stored in the organic surface layer and 80% in the mineral . Mountain grasslands have similar SOC stocks as forests. Extensively and intensively used grasslands in low altitudes have lower SOC stocks than mountain grasslands. The SOC stock in cropland is lower than in grasslands.

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The of – Database

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 ...

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Professorship in and Resources (W2) | EURAXESS

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 ...

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Countries across make progress on tackling …

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.

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to policy – EJP

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 ...

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Risk Assessment Methodologies of Threats

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

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Overview of contaminants affecting and groundwater

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 ...

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Machine learning in space and time for modelling organic …

This project was funded by The Nature Conservancy and received co-funding from the Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 774378 (project CIRCASA - Coordination of International Research Cooperation on CArbon Sequestration in Agriculture), as well as the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation.

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A strategic research agenda to make … – Commission

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.

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: A novel …

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 ...

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Achievable agricultural carbon sequestration across …

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.

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Status of local contamination : Revision of 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 ...

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moisture …

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 ...

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Agricultural Soils – Special Demands Related to …

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

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