Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes

A first-ever assessment at European scale combines the threat of water, wind, tillage and harvesting to reveal the cumulative impact on arable land. We present the datasets for each of the erosion process (water, wind, tillage, harvesting root crops) and their cumulative effect at 100m resolution for EU arable lands (110 Million ha).
Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Resource Type: 
Datasets
Soil Threats Data
Registration is requested: 
Yes
Year: 
2022
Themes: 
Erosion by water
Harvest Erosion
Wind Erosion
Keywords: 
soil loss

Here we show, using a multi-model approach, the spatial risk of soil erosion by water, wind, tillage and harvesting and where the co-occurrence of these different processes is observed. Moreover, we analysed where these locations of multiple erosion co-occurrence are likely to intersect with the projected increase of dry/wet climate conditions. Of the ~110 million hectares (M ha) of arable land in the European Union, our estimates show that 43 M ha are vulnerable to a single driver of erosion, 15.6 M ha to two drivers and 0.81 M ha to three or more drivers. About 3.2 M ha of arable land are vulnerable to the possible interaction of increased flood, drought, water and wind erosion.

Title: Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Description: This dataset A first-ever assessment at European scale combines the threat of water, wind, tillage and harvesting to reveal the cumulative impact on arable land. We present the datasets for each of the erosion process (water, wind, tillage, harvesting root crops) and their cumulative effect at 100m resolution for EU arable lands (110 Million ha). In addition, we make available the Tillage Erosion assessment and the spatial distribution of erosion by harvesting root crops.
Spatial coverage: EU & UK arable lands (110 million ha )
Pixel size: 100m
Measurement Unit: t ha-1 yr-1
Projection: ETRS_LAEA
Temporal coverage:  2010-2020
More information:  Soil loss by water erosion, wind erosion, harvesting root crops

Reference: Borrelli, P., Panagos, P., Alewell, C., Ballabio, C., de Oliveira Fagundes, H., Haregeweyn, N., Lugato, E., Maerker, M., Poesen, J., Vanmaercke, M. and Robinson, D.A., 2023. Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland. Nature Sustainability 6(1): 103-112. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00988-4.

The data includes 5 raster files:

  • All Erosion process. Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
  • Water erosion due to interill and rill. This is part of the soil loss by water erosion
  • Wind erosion. This is part of the soil loss by wind erosion
  • Tillage erosion. This dataset is estimated for first time using the Water and Tillage Erosion Model and WaTEM/SEDEM.
  • Soil loss by harvesting root crops (SLCH). This takes the aggregated data of soil loss by harvesting root crops spatialized by using the pan european map of crop distribution.

Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes

Potential multi-process soil displacement modelled for the EU and UK.

Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes

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Reference of source (Citations) :

Borrelli, P., Panagos, P., Alewell, C., Ballabio, C., de Oliveira Fagundes, H., Haregeweyn, N., Lugato, E., Maerker, M., Poesen, J., Vanmaercke, M. and Robinson, D.A., 2022. Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00988-4.

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Borrelli, P., Köninger, J., Ballabio, C., Orgiazzi, A., Lugato, E., Liakos, L., Hervas, J., Jones, A.  Montanarella, L. 2022. European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(6), e13315. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13315
  • Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L., “European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements”; (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
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