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 .
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.
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.
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.
LUCAS Module b) the development of -relevant indicators c) the exchange of data d) the data flows to ESDAC e) the cooperation towards the implementation of the Observatory and f ) research topics of common interest. The rep ort also includes the JRC recommendations for this collaboration. Finally, the report
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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).
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.
Carbon in Sensitive Ecosystems: From to Land Management – A Summary Robert Jandl , Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria
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 ...
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The EU Observatory (EUSO) organised the Erosion workshop in June 2023. •. The workshop was successful as attended by 333 participants and addressed 8 thematic areas. •. We address the main developments of the EU policies in relation to under the Green Deal. •. The editorial includes a summary of 9 published manuscripts.
At the Union scale, works comprehensively investigating how land use (by comparing croplands, grasslands, and forests) and climate (cold, temperate, and arid) mediate changes in bacterial and fungal biomass are useful for policy-making purposes and the development of predictive models for biodiversity conservation (Köninger ...
Agricultural production systems are currently severely threatening climate stability and ecosystem resilience and constitute a large driver of environmental degradation. For example, there are severe impacts through the loss of species biodiversity and ecosystem services such as pollination, increase in erosion, declines in fertility ...
The Journal of (EJSS) Use and Management; Instagram channel. Visit BSSS; Journal of . Volume 69, Issue 5 p. 879-891.
Nature - . ... Continued monitoring of human-induced changes to every 5–10 years will be crucial for refining policies (D. A. Robinson 347, 140 ...
The Environment Agency (EEA) " monitoring report" presents a comprehensive set of common indicators to assess health as well as risk-based thresholds to inform protection and restoration needs and -related policies .
This page attempts to catalogue all freely-downloadable primary soils information usable a GIS either as 'points', lines, polygons or grids ('rasters'). This compilation has been maintained first at University of Twente/ITC (1997-2014), then at Cornell University (2014-2017), and now at ISRIC by guest researcher David G. Rossiter . He has ...
The functional-factorial approach to evolution and is based on soils as a function of the combined, interacting influences of environmental factors such as geology, climate, topography and drainage, and biota. The state factor approach is covered more thoroughly in Chapter 2.
Severe drought plagued in 2003, amplifying heatwave conditions that killed more than 30,000 people. Assuming business as usual, such moisture deficits will become twice as frequent in ...
The most remarkable phase of erosion occurred in the first half of 14th century, at the beginning of the Little Ice Age. The second well-known intense erosion phase occurred in the mid-18th to early 19th century—at the end of the Little Ice Age. Historical records document extreme precipitation events during these two phases ...
In response to growing concerns over conservation issues , on 3–4 November 1988, 18 experts from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom met and founded the ‘ Society for Conservation’ (ESSC) in Leuven (Belgium) on 4 November 1988 (Fig. 1).
Journal of . Volume 68, Issue 1 p. 66-79. Original Article. ... The British Society of is a limited company, registered in England ...
Kaiser K, Guggenberger G (2003) Mineral surfaces and organic matter. Journal of 54:219-236. Article CAS Google Scholar Kalbitz K, Schwesig D, Rethemeyer J, Matzner E (2005) Stabilization of dissolved organic matter by sorption to the mineral . Biology and Biochemistry 37:1319-1331.
Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, Wageningen, The Netherlands e-mail: gerben.mol@wur.nl. Gerben Mol is senior scientist at the CentreofWageningenUniversity ...
Results at the plot/farm scale showed a small positive impact of SICS on environment and , no effect on sustainability, and small negative impacts on economic and sociocultural dimensions. Modelling showed that different SICS had different impacts across -indicating the importance of understanding local dynamics -wide ...
The concept of ecosystem services has received increased attention in recent years, and is seen as a useful construct for the development of policy relevant indicators and communication for , policy and practice. erosion is one of the main environmental problems for Mediterranean agro-forestry systems, making erosion ...
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Inconsistent effects of agricultural practices on fungal communities across 12 long-term experiments. Silja Emilia Hannula, Dominico Paolo Di Lonardo, Bent T. Christensen, Felicity V. Crotty, Annemie Elsen, Peter J. van Erp, Elly M. Hansen, Gitte H. Rubæk, Mia Tits, Zoltan Toth, Aad J. Termorshuizen.
There has been little research, however, on the effects of biochar on three-dimensional (3-D) structure and carbon distribution within aggregates. To investigate the effects we amended two types (Ultisol and Vertisol) with three types of biochar (at the rate of 40 g biochar kg −1 ). We separated the macroaggregates (5–7 cm in ...
Knowledge. Themes. Erosion by water. (Baseline) Erosion - Projections by 2050; Historical reconstruction (1860-2018) of erosion rates; Global Erosion; Global Erosion – Future projections; PESERA Model; MESALES Model; G2 Model; Indicators on Erosion; Erodibility ; Global Rainfall Erosivity
The Bureau Network (ESBN) was created in 1996, as a network of national institutions, managed through a permanent Secretariat located at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy (Meyer-Roux and Montanarella, 1998). Since October 2000, the ESBN has become part of the Land Management Unit of the Environment ...
is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to original research on global and regional studies. Publishes research discussing genesis, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, fertility, management, conservation, and remediation of soils. Aims to broaden the understanding of ecological functions and biological, chemical, and ...
Environment Agency. sealing refers to changing the nature of the such that it behaves as an impermeable medium (for example, compaction by agricultural machinery). sealing is also used to describe the covering or sealing of the surface by impervious materials by, for example, concrete, metal, glass, tarmac and plastic.
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The Commission in its proposal for an EU Thematic Strategy has identified the following 7 functions to be protected in the EU: Biomass production, including in agriculture and ...
Master . Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics. This course explores the properties of soils and soft rocks in relation to civil engineering, the theory of geomechanics... Environmental — , Water and Biodiversity (EnvEuro)