Integrated Soil Modelling

The Integrated Soil Modelling section shows the cases of advanced soil system modelling at Large (e.g. continental) scales. The objective of this section is to:

  • Promote integration of modelling expertise between different soil  threats or soil functions
  • integrate soil modelling with other expertise (e.g. Climate, hydrology, land surface, economy, biodiversity, ecosystems, etc)

This section is open for ideas/collaborations and data exchange between modelers.

 

Soil biodiversity and soil erosion

The relationship between erosion and biodiversity is reciprocal. Soil organisms can both reduce soil loss, by improving porosity, and increase it, by diminishing soil
stability as a result of their mixing activities. Simultaneously, soil runoff has ecological impacts on belowground communities. Despite clear research into interactions,
soil erosion models do not consider biodiversity in their estimates and soil ecology has poorly investigated the effects of erosion. In order to start filling in these research
gaps, we present a novel biological factor and introduce it into a well‐known soil erosion model (the revised universal soil loss equation). Furthermore, we propose
insights to advance soil erosion ecology.

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Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils
Resource Type: Datasets, Soil Threats Data
Theme/Sub-Theme: Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil erosion and carbon
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Year: 2018
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
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Keywords: carbon budget; soil erosion; future projections |

Biodiversity factor in soil erosion
Resource Type: Datasets, Soil Threats Data
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Erodibility in Europe, Soil Biodiversity, Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil biodiversity and soil erosion
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Year: 2018
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
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Keywords: soil biodiversity |