Soil erosion: Soil carbon: soil nutrients and fertility
The presented datasets and indicators on soil erosion, soil organic carbon stocks and soil nutrients are the result of modelling activities taken place at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra. The datasets are important advancements in the current knowledge of soil properties and processes at continental scale. In addition, the soil erosion, soil carbon and soil nutrients datasets and indicators provide baselines for evaluating the current status of agricultural soils in the European Union (EU) and evaluating the impact of agro-environmental policies on land management. Moreover, those datasets can further contribute to propose and design management practices to improve the status of agricultural soils, face land degradation and better target policy interventions. The indicators of soil erosion and soil organic carbon are currently included in monitoring the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, here we propose the development of soil nutrients datasets both as individual indicators (Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Potassium) and as composite indicator of soil fertility. Concluding, we found that the soil organic carbon changes cannot be identified within the timeline of policy interventions (for example in the CAP the assessment cycle is 7 years).
PANAGOS Panagiotis;
BALLABIO Cristiano;
SCARPA Simone;
BORRELLI Pasquale;
LUGATO Emanuele;
MONTANARELLA Luca;
2020-02-26
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC119220
978-92-76-15644-4 (online),
978-92-76-15645-1 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 30090 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30090-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30090-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC119220,
10.2760/011194 (online),
10.2760/889067 (print),
