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Existing data sets on earthworm communities were collected, harmonized, collated, modelled and depicted on a biodiversity map. Digital Mapping was applied using multiple regressions relating relatively low density earthworm community data to characteristics, land use, vegetation and climate factors (covariables) with a greater spatial resolution.

, the areas under CA have stagnated since the 1980s at around 1 to a few percent depending on the country. Long held back by the myth of the need to work the and by the competition of the development of simplified cultural techniques (SCT), CA has for the past ten years or so, generated a great deal of interest among farmers .

compaction (SC) is a major threat for agriculture that affects many ecosystem functions, such as water and air circulation in soils, root growth, and crop production. Our objective was to present the results from five short-term (<5 years) case studies located along the north–south and east–west gradients and conducted within the SoilCare project using -improving ...

compaction is a major threat where about 32% of soils are highly susceptible and 18% are moderately susceptible to it ( Commission, 2021b). In permanent grasslands, compaction occurs due to animal trampling, machinery wheeling and poaching or pugging (i.e. penetration of surface by the animal hooves).

For all species — animals and plants living on land or water — land is vital. — one of the essential components of land — is a very complex and often undervalued element, teeming with life. Unfortunately, the way we currently use land and and in the world is not sustainable. This has significant impacts on life on land.

from various land-use types under temperate climate conditions suggest that the amount of brought to the surface by earthworms annually as castings is about 40 t ha −1 year −1 (based on 19 studies), contributing about 0.4 cm (based on 13 studies) of topsoil per year. Under a temperate climate, earthworms can thus potentially ...

Coupling Hg stocks in topsoil with losses and sediment distribution . • Hg displaced by water erosion is c.a. 43 Mg yr − 1 and c.a. 6 Mg Hg yr − 1 reach the rivers. • Agricultural lands contributes to more than 85% of Hg losses. • The Mediterranean Sea receives almost half of the Hg fluxes followed by Black Sea.

PhD in Real-time monitoring of surface and water quality Real-time monitoring of surface and water quality The quality of surface water has become a pressing environmental concern, with significant implications for public health, biodiversity, and sustainability.

A tremendous effort has been already invested in monitoring , at country and at EU levels. However, there is no comprehensive and updated body of knowledge for identifying healthy soils and those that are degraded and require protection.

contamination is one of the greatest concerns among the threats to resources and globally. Despite of its importance there was only very course scale (1/5000 km 2) data available on heavy metal concentrations prior to the LUCAS topsoil survey, which had a sampling density of 200 km 2. Based on the results of the LUCAS ...

Analysis of P status was carried out with the model based on clay and pH (Fig. 3) since it was not easy to find reliable and current information on average annual rainfall at all sampling points of the LUCAS project. Additionally, rainfall is the most changeable predictive factor, and annual variation can be significant in ...

Environmental quality is a major political concern and. the important role of the is widely recognized. However, . still has an important role to play in translating ...

Description: This dataset includes the past reconstruction of erosion rates (incuding UK, Switzerland and Western balkans). The data provided have are aggregated per decade starting from 1860. The erosion change is driven by changes in land use and rainfall erosivity. The simulations have been done using the CE-DYNAM model.

, recent studies have modelled water, wind and tillage erosion at continental scale and shed new light on their geography. However, to acquire a comprehensive picture of erosion threats more processes need to be addressed and made visible to decision-makers.

limited attention . 2.2.5.5 Erosion Caused by Crop Harvesting (SLCH) Over the last two decades, it has become clear that during harvesting of crops such as potato, sugar and fodder ...

Although a collection of metadata exists on long-term experiments , related to the turnover of organic matter, a convenient method to access the actual data was required. The EuroSOMNET database has been designed in order to save detailed information from those experiments. The data model contains five pools of information: basics ...

@inproceedings{Paz2021TowardsCS, title={Towards climate-smart sustainable management of agricultural soils : Deliverable 2.1 Synthesis of the impacts of sustainable management practices }, author={Alba Vila Paz and Wieke Vervuurt and Janjo de Haan and Heide Spiegel and Corina Carranca and Julia Miloczki and Carlos Gonçalves and N ...

Here we develop a high-resolution (0.1°) daily moisture dataset (SoMo.ml-EU) using Long Short-Term Memory trained with in-situ measurements. The resulting dataset covers three ...

Cristiano Ballabio, Rudi Hessel ; threats ; EUR 27607 EN; doi:10.2788/488054 (print); doi:10.2788/828742 (online) The challenge As formation is an extremely slow process, can be considered a non-renewable resource.

DOI: 10.1016/J.EARSCIREV.2012.08.003 Corpus ID: 128681950; How effective are conservation techniques in reducing plot runoff and loss and the Mediterranean

Cristiano Ballabio, Rudi Hessel ; threats ; EUR 27607 EN; doi:10.2788/488054 (print); doi:10.2788/828742 (online) The challenge As formation is an extremely slow process, ...