Soil Threats Data

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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Soil Bulk Density in Europe
Title: Soil Bulk Density in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction
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Year: 2024
Keywords: Bulk density; Packing Density; Soil compaction |

Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils
Title: Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
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Year: 2024
Keywords: pesticides |

Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans
Title: Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content
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Year: 2024
Keywords: carbon losses |

Erosion potential method (EPM)
Title: Erosion potential method (EPM)
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion
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Year: 2024
Keywords: erosion potential |

Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union
Title: Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils
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Year: 2023
Keywords: cadmium |

Global Soil Erodibility
Title: Global Soil Erodibility
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion
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Year: 2023
Keywords: soil erodibility |




Zinc concentrations in EU topsoils
Title: Zinc concentrations in EU topsoils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
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Year: 2023
Keywords: soil contamination |


Cover Crops across Europe
Title: Cover Crops across Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Organic Carbon Content
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Year: 2023
Keywords: cover crops |


Post-fire soil erosion in Europe
Title: Post-fire soil erosion in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Post-fire Soil Erosion
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Year: 2023
Keywords: Soil Erosion |

Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe
Title: Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water
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Year: 2022
Keywords: soil erosion; reconstruction |

Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Title: Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Wind Erosion, Harvest Erosion
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Year: 2022
Keywords: soil loss |

Phosphorus budget and P stocks
Title: Phosphorus budget and P stocks
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils
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Year: 2022
Keywords: NPK; Phosphorus |


Phosphorus plant removal
Title: Phosphorus plant removal
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils
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Year: 2022
Keywords: Phosphorus |


Land degradation debt
Title: Land degradation debt
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Land degradation
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Year: 2021

Soil microbial biomass and respiration
Title: Soil microbial biomass and respiration
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity
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Year: 2021

Water erosion in Europe by 2050
Title: Water erosion in Europe by 2050
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water
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Year: 2021

Land degradation in global arable lands
Title: Land degradation in global arable lands
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion, Land degradation
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Year: 2021
Language: en
Keywords: aridity |

Mercury content in the European Union topsoil
Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Mercury in topsoils
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Year: 2021
Language: en
Keywords: contamination |
Attachments: Image icon Hg distribution