Multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland

Novel assessment of the spatial distribution of individual and combined (additive) threat to soil due to five erosion processes across the world's areas suitable for farming. Susceptibility classes were predicted for water erosion, wind erosion, Soil Loss by Crop Harvesting (SLCH), Tillage erosion and gully erosion.
Resource Type: 
Datasets
Soil Threats Data
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Year: 
2023
Themes: 
Erosion by water
Erosion by water›Global Soil Erosion

The five soil erosion processes that we considered are: (i) water erosion due to interrill and rill; (ii) water erosion due to gully; (iii) tillage erosion (iv) wind erosion and (iv) (root or tuber) crop harvesting erosion (in short SLCH).  Of a modelled 1.48 billion hectares (B ha) of global cropland, our results indicate that 0.56 B ha (~36% of the total area) are highly susceptible (classes 4 and 5) to a single erosion process, 0.27 B ha (~18% of the total area) to two processes and 0.02 B ha (1.4% of the total area) to three or more processes. An estimated 0.82 B ha of croplands are susceptible to possible increases in water (0.68 B ha) and wind (0.14 B ha) erosion.

Title: Multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland
Description: This dataset is the first-ever assessment at Global scale combining 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 1km resolution for Global croplands (1.48 Billion ha). Practically, includes the first ever global susceptibility assessment for wind, tillage and SLCH erosion.
Spatial coverage: Global Croplands (1.48 Billion ha )
Pixel size: 1km
Measurement Unit: Classes of susceptibility (1: Very Low; 2: Relatively Low; 3: Moderate; 4: Relatively High; 5: Very High)
Projection: ETRS_LAEA
Temporal coverage:  2010-2020
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Reference: Borrelli, P., Alewell, C., Yang, J.E., Bezak, N., Chen, Y., Fenta, A.A., Fendrich, A.N., Gupta, S., Matthews, F., Modugno, S.,Haregeweyn, N., Robinson, D.A, Tan, F., Vanmaercke, M., Verstraeten, G., Vieira, D., Panagos, P. 2023. Towards a better understanding of pathways of multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 11(4), pp.713-725.

The data includes 4 groups of files

  • Individual processes (Intrisic scenario - farmable land - as Fig. 2 of the publication)
  • Land suitable for crops (In actual scenario - as Fig. 3 of the publication)
  • Co-occurrence of different soil erosion processes (by water, wind, gully, tillage and harvesting)  (as Fig. 4 of the publication).
  • Future Trends (Water, Wind) -(as Fig. 5 of the publication).

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  1. The data provided has been prepared for use by internal research activities in the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra in collaboration with University of Roma Tre, University of Basel,  KU Leuven, Kangwon National University, Tottori University, University of Ljubljana, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ-UPSACLAY, University of Leicester,  United Nation World Food Programme and  UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. This work has been done in the context of the Working group of Soil Erosion of the EU Soil Observatory addressing the soil erosion in relation to land degradation, climate change and food security.
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Reference of source (Citations) :

Borrelli, P., Alewell, C., Yang, J.E., Bezak, N., Chen, Y., Fenta, A.A., Fendrich, A.N., Gupta, S., Matthews, F., Modugno, S.,Haregeweyn, N., Robinson, D.A, Tan, F., Vanmaercke, M., Verstraeten, G., Vieira, D., Panagos, P. 2023. Towards a better understanding of pathways of multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 11(4), pp.713-725.

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
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre