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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SoilCare – Care for profitable and sustainable crop …

Care will involve: (1) Review of existing data on -improving cropping systems; (2) Definition of what constitutes a -improving cropping system; (3) Evaluation of -improving cropping systems at 16 study sites ; (4) Modelling to upscale results from study sites in order to recommend -improving cropping systems for locations under various scenarios; (5 ...

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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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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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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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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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Assessing erosion based on data collected …

In 2010, the Data Centre (ESDAC) of the Commission conducted a project to collect data on erosion from national institutions , using the Environment Information and Observation Network for (EIONET-). The aim of this paper is to present a selection of the results obtained for erosion ...

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Moisture Drought : A Compound Event of …

Abstract Compound events are extreme impacts that depend on multiple variables that need not be extreme themselves. In this study, we analyze moisture drought as a compound event of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) on multiple time scales related to both meteorological drought and heat waves in wet, transitional, and dry climates during summer.

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Influence of climate, , and land cover on plant species …

From ESDAC, we included only predictors of ecological relevance for plant species with full spatial coverage, namely, the 3D Hydraulic Database of (Tóth et al. 2017), the Database derived data (Hiederer 2013a, b) and the Topsoil Organic Content for (Jones et al. 2005). SoilGrids variables were chosen based on ...

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| Soils 4 Teachers

Physical, biological, and chemical processes in the affect the balance in organic carbon compounds, and if they are released to the atmosphere as CO 2, or stored in the . This same process occurs with Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and all other materials. Water Filtration. Without and particles, water would be running on bare rocks!

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Respiration Grasslands in Relation to …

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.

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Five decades of erosion research in “terroir”. The State …

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.

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Natural susceptibility to compaction

In total there are 6 categories: 0 - no . This represents water bodies, glaciers and rock outcrops. 1 - low susceptibility to compaction. 2. - medium susceptibility to compaction. 3. - high susceptibility to compaction. 4. - very high susceptibility to compaction. 9. - no evaluation possible.

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carbon …

The regional maps were developed based on the regional surveys and illustrate the bias existing in data for different regions. The map for the Rostov region was digitized by the Dokuchaev Institute based on the 1:300,000 map developed by Southern state design Institute for land management of the USSR in 1985.

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Annual Conference Programme 2023 – British Society of …

Benchmarking Health across The recent proposal for a Monitoring and Resilience Directive by the Commission states that 60-70% of soils are currently considered unhealthy due to e.g. pollution, excess nutrients compaction and degradation. In light of this worrying figure, the SH&F mission has set the goal ...

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Increase in severe and extreme moisture droughts for …

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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Status of local contamination – Publications …

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.

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Total carbon and nitrogen in the soils of the world …

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.

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A -wide inventory of NO emissions using the …

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).

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