Soil Threats Data - ESDAC - European Commission

In this category, some datasets related to soil threats as they have been identified by the European Soil Thematic Strategy are presented. Detailed information about the Soil Threats can be found in the relevant theme section of the portal. For some soil threats such as Soil Erosion, Organic Carbon Decline, Compaction, Salinisation, soil Biodiversity decline, Land take and food security, Landslides and Heavy Metals, datasets are readily available for downloading.

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	Title: REDES 2.0
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2026 Keywords: erosivity

	Title: Global post-fire soil erosion
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Post-fire Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2026 Keywords: fires
	Attachments: a. Global pre-fire soil erosion estimates. b. Global post-fire soil erosion estimates.

	Title: LUCAS Heavy Metals
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2026 Keywords: pollution

	Title: Optimizing phosphorus inputs in EU agricultural soils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Phosphorus budget in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: Phosphorus

	Title: Global Soil Organic Carbon displaced due to erosion
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC losses

	Title: Projected SOC changes by 2070 under the RCP4.5 scenario
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: organic carbon

	Title: Aboveground biomass carbon over the Amazon for 2010-2020
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: organic carbon

	Title: Dissolved cadmium content and Oxalate-extractable iron in EU and China
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: soil contamination;

	Title: Pesticides and Soil Biodiversity
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2026

	Title: Risk of heavy metals from application of sewage sludge
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Sewage sludge and ecological risk of heavy metals Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: soil contamination

	Title: Gully erosion in the EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Gully Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: Gully

	Title: Soil Carbon Risk Index
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC

	Title: Observed/typical SOC index
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC; Soil Organic Carbon

	Title: Land Degradation in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: land degradation; Soil degradation; Indicators
	Attachments: Spatial distribution of LMI values (number of co-occurring processes) in agricultural landscapes.

	Title: Soil degradation indicators in EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Wind Erosion, Soil Compaction, Soil Biodiversity, Soil Contamination, Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: soil degradation; soil health; EU Soil Health Dashboard

	Title: Arsenic in European topsoils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024
	Attachments: Median arsenic concentrations in Europe

	Title: Soil Bulk Density in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: Bulk density; Packing Density; Soil compaction
	Attachments: Bulk density map (100 m resolution) in the EU and UK (0–20 cm depth)

	Title: Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: pesticides

	Title: Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: carbon losses

	Title: Erosion potential method (EPM)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2024 Keywords: erosion potential
	Attachments: Global gross soil erosion rates according to the EPM (above) and mEPM (below)

	Title: Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2023 Keywords: cadmium
	Attachments: Cadmium concentration with the outliers overlaid as black circles

	Title: Global Soil Erodibility
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2023 Keywords: soil erodibility
	Attachments: Spatial distribution of the global K factor maps (t ha h ha−1 MJ−1 mm)

	Title: Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Croplands and Grasslands between 2009 and 2018
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, SOC Changes, Agricultural SOC Stocks, Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2023 Keywords: SOC

	Title: Multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2023

	Title: GloREDa
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Rainfall Erosivity, Future Global Rainfall Erosivity in 2050 and 2070, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe, Monthly erosivity Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2023
	Attachments: The distribution of the rainfall erosivity stations of GloREDa 1.2. Background map: The annual R-factor map.

6 Mar 2026	Data on "Impact of Healthy Diet Shifts on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across Europe" and relevant publication
23 Feb 2026	Data on the impact of Pesticides and Soil Biodiversity.The analysed data contributed to the development of a high scientific article published in NATURE.
11 Feb 2026	New dataset containing the data for Heavy Metals from samples taken during the LUCAS 2009/2012 and 2018 campaigns. The data are georeferenced to European NUTS. (LUCAS Heavy Metals)
16 Jan 2026	Inter- and intra-laboratory replicate measurements of SOC for LUCAS and relevant publication
18 Dec 2025	Datase on The Fraction of Carbon in Soil Organic Matter and relevant publication