Global Soil Organic Carbon displaced due to erosion

By integrating global soil erosion data with a recent SOC map, we estimated gross SOC displacement due to water erosion (interrill and rill processes) at 220m pixel resolution at global scale. In addition, to the baseline data (2019), we also provide projections of SOC losses in 2070 under two climate scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP8.5)
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Datasets
Soil Threats Data
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Year: 
2025
Themes: 
Erosion by water
Erosion by water›Global Soil Erosion
Keywords: 
SOC losses

Title: Global Soil Organic Carbon displaced due to erosion.
Description: Soil erosion significantly affects soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics, impacting carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation. Global SOC loss from erosion is estimated at approximately 0.97 Pg C/year. Projections for 2070 suggest this could increase to 1.18 Pg C/year under the RCP2.6 scenario and 1.31 Pg C/year under the RCP8.5 scenario. This dataset combines current and future global soil erosion maps (GloSEM 1.3, Borrelli et al., 2022), containing inter-rill and rill processes, with SoilGrids 250 m data (Hengl et al., 2017) on a SOC content (in ‰ (g kg−1)) map. This approach aimed to estimate the potential impacts of climate change on soil and SOC losses at the global scale, assuming constant cropland coverage and SOC content for the simulated periods (2019 and 2070).

Spatial coverage: Global Scale
Pixel size: 220m x 220m (0.00208333 decilmal degrees)
Temporal coverage:  2019 (Baseline) - 2070 (future projections)
Projection: WGS84

Reference: Yoon, J.H., Jung, S.S., Kim, H.S., Park, Y., Kim, H., Mishra, U., Gautam, S., Alewell, C., Panagos, P., Kirkham, M.B., Borrelli, P., Yang, J.  2025. Impact of soil erosion on soil organic carbon loss and its implications for carbon neutrality. Advances in Agronomy, 191: 363-414.

 

 

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Reference of source (Citations) :

Yoon, J.H., Jung, S.S., Kim, H.S., Park, Y., Kim, H., Mishra, U., Gautam, S., Alewell, C., Panagos, P., Kirkham, M.B., Borrelli, P., Yang, J.  2025. Impact of soil erosion on soil organic carbon loss and its implications for carbon neutrality. Advances in Agronomy, 191: 363-414.

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