A review of earthworm impact on function and ecosystem …

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 ...

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Mercury topsoils: Anthropogenic sources, stocks …

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.

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testing and plant analysis in Western | Semantic …

and Plant Analysis Council: A Model for Scientific Innovation, Education, and Development. Y. Kalra J. Ryan. Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental . 2009. and plant analysis has been a major contribution to the development of the agricultural sciences and indirectly to sustaining mankind.

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Participatory citizen : An unexploited resource …

The Joint Programme ‘Towards climate-smart and sustainable agricultural management’ (EJP , 2020–2025) launched by the Union is a major initiative to develop an integrated research community on agricultural soils. research is essential for understanding and enhancing the contribution of ...

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Systems | Free Full-Text | Managing Soils for Recovering …

has disrupted the global food supply chain and exacerbated the problem of food and nutritional insecurity. Here we outline strategies to strengthen local food production systems, enhance their resilience, and create a circular economy focused on restoration through carbon sequestration, on-farm cycling of nutrients, minimizing environmental pollution, and ...

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protection – Commission – EU Hub

The JRC supports the Thematic Strategy for Protection, addressing areas such as erosion, contamination, compaction, landslides and loss of biodiversity and organic matter. provides the main foundation for human activity and housing. It is a limited and fragile resource, that 's environment policy seeks to protect.

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priorities in Russia – ScienceDirect

Highlights. •. The research priorities for in Russia include the study of microbiome and metagenome and other topics: •. The impact of global and regional climate changes soils and mechanisms of organic matter stabilization. •. Technogenic and agrogenic pollution, the construction of improved and artificial soils.

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health related citizen- projects – ESDAC …

In this work, over 60 citizen projects that considered health were reviewed. Citizen projects were collected based on literature search, expert interviews, project partner contributions and through the mailing lists of the Network for Awareness (ENSA) and the Data Center (ESDAC).

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Journal of

The aim of the study was to understand the current state of knowledge about the impacts of management practices, investigated and/or implemented across . The results were analysed at the level and were also grouped into Regions and Environmental Zones.

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by 2050

The cumulative impact of climate change (based on the three RCP scenarios) and land use change is a projected increase in erosion rates of 13–22.5 % in agricultural lands of the EU plus UK by 2050. This sizable gap can be eliminated (or at least reduced) with management practices for reduced losses.

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The threat of salinity: A scale review …

salinisation is a widespread phenomenon, with saline and sodic soils covering 932.2 Mha globally ( Rengasamy, 2006 ), and one of the major degradation threats worldwide, with mismanaged irrigation affecting 34.19 Mha ( Mateo-Sagasta and Burke, 2011) or over 10% of the total irrigated land ( Aquastat, 2016 ).

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– ESDAC …

Dataset that contains 3 GIS maps showing (for microorganisms, for fauna,forbiological functions), along with 13 input layers (habitat fragmentation, climate change, erosion, etc.); resolution 500m. Because of the increasing pressures exerted on , below-ground life is under threat.

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health in the Western Balkans – Database

scientists would be further integrated with the EU community, especially through greater involvement in the Partnership. The positive experience of the Bureau Network (ESBN) coordinated by JRC could be re vitalised. data in many countries are obsolete and the only new regional source is the

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Degradation and Quality in Western : Current …

The extent and causes of chemical, physical and biological degradation of , and of loss, vary greatly in different countries in Western . The objective of this review paper is to examine these issues and also strategies for protection and future perspectives for quality evaluation, in light of present legislation aimed at protection. Agriculture and forestry are ...

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PhD – FEMS

Institut National de la Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Dijon, France and ECT Oekotoxicologie GmbH, Flörsheim am Main, Germany are offering a PhD scholarship in pesticide ecotoxicology with expected commencement May 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter. The PhD will be enrolled in the doctoral school ‘Environments – Santé’ and will

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in Italy: 1861 to 2024 | SpringerLink

Overview. Editors: Carmelo Dazzi, Anna Benedetti, Giuseppe Corti, Edoardo A. C. Costantini. Represents a unique opportunity to preserve the memory of the Italian history of . Bridges between the pioneers of in Italy and the young generation of researchers. Constitutes a milestone in Italian cultural heritage.

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of The Total Environment – ScienceDirect

While semi-quantitative information on type at medium spatial scale (around 1:100,000) are widely available across , fine-scale information and physical properties such as available water capacity (AWC) are scarce, especially for forests (Baltensweiler et al., 2021). In this regard, the East German Survey System provided a ...

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Assessing the phosphorus demand agricultural …

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 ...

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Down to earth: degradation and sustainable development …

A challenge for the 21st century Environmental issue series No 16 Cover design and layout: Schultz Grafisk Legal notice Neither the Environment Agency or UNEP nor any person or company acting on behalf of them, is responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained in this report. Where are the " hot spots " of degradation ?

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Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the Union and …

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 ...

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