Land-use- and climate-mediated variations in bacterial …

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 ...

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The contribution of the Society for …

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).

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An assessment of erosion prevention by vegetation in …

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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Metals in urban soils of : A systematic review – PubMed

Here, we conducted a systematic analysis of metal contamination urban soils based on 174 peer-reviewed studies spanning 143 urban sites and 29 countries. The results show that reporting of data on urban metals is highly heterogeneous across the study area. Over half of all studies are from only five countries (Italy ...

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Agri-environmental indicator – erosion – Statistics …

Assessing erosion based on data collected through a Network. and Plant Nutrition, 2014. 60 (1):15-29. ↑ Cerdan O, Govers G, Le Bissonnais Y, et al. 2010: Rates and spatial variations of erosion : a study based on erosion plot data. Geomorphology, 122(1–2), 167–177.

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In the revised FAO classification system (FAO, 1994) which was originally developed for the 1 : 5,000,000 maps, and also in the later Community D.H. Yaalon / Catena 28 (1997) 157-169 165 map (1 : 1,000,000) the Red and Brown Mediterranean terms were replaced by various subunits of Luvisols (chromic, calcic, vertic ...

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Greenhouse gas emissions from … – Semantic Scholar

Journal of In order to estimate potential greenhouse gas flux rates from soils under different land use and climate, and to particularly assess the influence of temperature and moisture, we measured fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), nitric oxide (NO), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from intact cores ...

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World Day 2023: Advancing how health is monitored …

Carrying out harmonised assessment and monitoring the health of soils across ’s different ecosystems and land uses is crucial but complex. In recognition of this, in July 2023, the Commission proposed a new law that focuses on improving monitoring to support the restoration and sustainable use of EU soils.

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To manage the use of agricultural soils well, decision-makers need -based, easy-to-apply and cost-effective tools to assess changes in quality and function. The Commission, the Government of China and the Government of Switzerland co-funded the research project “Interactive Quality Assessment and China for ...

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Protection Policies in the Union | SpringerLink

2.1 Environmental Policy Making . The year 1972 marked the birth of environmental policy at EU level, as well as in the international arena. In this year the Heads of State and of Government adopted a declaration at the October Council Meeting in Paris which emphasized the importance of a Community Environmental Policy and to this end invited the Community Institutions to ...

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Provision of metadata of agricultural long-term …

The study has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the grant scheme BonaRes – as a Sustainable Resource for the Bioeconomy, grant number 031B 0511B. EJP has received funding from the Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme: Grant agreement No 862695.

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The complete wind and water erosion datasets are available via the Data Centre (ESDAC, 2017). Glyphosate and AMPA concentration data is represented at the basic region NUTS2 level and not on exact locations due to privacy issues, and plotted together with erosion rates (although the different time scales; the erosion maps are ...

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Do Agricultural Advisory Services Have the Capacity …

Indeed, health is seen as “a key solution for our big challenges” in the newly launched Union (EU) Strategy, which builds on the Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy [3,4]. For agricultural soils, health and managing sustainably are regarded as central to food system transition pathways such as ...

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Gap assessment in current monitoring networks across …

At EU-level, the Commission remains committed to the objective of protection through the EU Thematic Strategy and the 7th Environment Action Programme (Publications Office of the Union 2013) with the objectives that by 2020 'land is managed sustainably in the Union, is adequately protected and the remediation of ...

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iSOIL project (Interactions between related sciences)

iSOIL data are integrated into the Data Centre (ESDAC) in order to enhance the collaboration on, and further use of, the data generated in the iSOIL project, also beyopnd the project's lifetime. The data can be downloaded for free and used under the conditions set in the License agreement. More information about the iSoil Project.

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