ESDAC Highlights
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7 Jul 2016 |
The CASCADE project newsletter (june 2016) reports of a number of subjects and developments within the CASCADE project; amongst others it reports about the last plenary project meeting in Ispra, Italy
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30 Jun 2016 |
2 datasets available for the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas: We make available the Soil Biodiversity Map (pagezs 90-91 of the Atlas) and Soil Biodiversity threats map (Pages 134-135 of the Atlas) Soil Biodiversity map. |
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12 May 2016 |
Soil team gave 6 presentations in EGU 2016: Coupling erosion and organic carbon, RUSLE2015 erosion model, wind erosion model, Science and policy interface, GAEC application in Italy and impact in erosion, REDES: Rainfall erosivity database |
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29 Apr 2016 |
The Tea Bag Index has as objective to create a global soil map of tea bag decomposition. If you are interested to join this experiment, and agree with the terms and conditions, you can apply till 1 February 2017. |
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11 Mar 2016 |
In the context of the Global Soil Partnership, ESDAC made a significant contribution to the European Chapter of this massive report of 650 pages. This report has now become available for download from FAO as separate chapters. |
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10 Mar 2016 |
RECARE project report: Soil threats in Europe: Status, methods, drivers and effects on ecosystem services. |
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10 Mar 2016 |
Quantifying the erosion effect on current carbon budget by coupling the soil erosion (RUSLE 2015) into a biogeochemistry model (CENTURY) |
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17 Dec 2015 |
Luca Montanarella has published an article in NATURE with the title "Agricultural policy: Govern our soils". The article underlines the need for a voluntary international agreement to protect the ground beneath our feet from erosion and degradation |
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10 Dec 2015 |
FOCUS DG SANTE, i.e. the FOrum for Co-ordination of pesticide fate models and their USe. From this site you can obtain the currently approved versions of FOCUS simulation models and FOCUS scenarios, that are used to calculate the concentrations of plant protection products in groundwater and surface water in the EU review process |
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6 Nov 2015 |
Erosion in forestland : A pan-European analysis that delineates the spatial patterns of forest cover changes in Europe, and then makes a dynamic assessment of the soil loss potential in the EU-28 forests.You can download the Soil loss potential (by water erosion) n forests, Forest Cover Change (ha) and Forest Fires (ha). |
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16 Oct 2015 |
The monthly rainfall erosivity datasets and seasonal erosivity density for Greece are available in the corresponding section: R-factor and Erosivity Density in Greece |
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13 Oct 2015 |
JRC soil erosion team in collaboration with NERC has published a correspondence article in Nature. This comment is based on the recent assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe. |
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23 Sep 2015 |
Land and Soil Management Award: Deadline december 2015 |
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7 Sep 2015 |
In the context of the International Year of Soils, and the World Exposition ‘Feeding the planet – Energy for life’, you are cordially invited to participate to the ‘Giving soils a voice’ workshop - the fourth meeting of European Network of Soil Awareness (ENSA) |
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3 Sep 2015 |
Soil erosion by water (RUSLE2015): At a resolution of 100m, this is the most detailed assessment yet of soil erosion by water for the EU. |
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3 Sep 2015 |
Topsoil physical properties at European scale (using LUCAS topsoil) Predited attributes: Clay(%), Silt(%), Sand(%), Coarse fragements(%), Bulk density, USDA soil texture, Available Water Capacity(AWC) |
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3 Sep 2015 |
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Data & PERSAM software tool: New data available in relation to "Scenario Selection & Scenario Parameterisation for Permanent Crops and Row Crops on Ridges in Support of Predicting Environmental Concentrations of Plant Protection Products and Their Transformation Products in Soil" |