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Temporary Dataset Download: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion

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25-January-2026

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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 Basel. In addition, other research organisations have participated in this research:  INRA (FR), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Kangwon National University (South Korea). 
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Global average Phosphorus losses

Download the data package here.
 
The Directory LandUse includes the data of Figure 1 of the publication:
- Croplands_2015: The total land cover with the % expessing how much is the fraction of croplands in the pixel. This is the whole globle.
- Land_use: It is the same as Croplands_2015; however limited to the study/simulated area
 
The Directory P_Fluxes is including the data of Figure 2 of the publication. Global average P losses due to soil erosion in kg P ha-1 yr-1. 
 
MXD files are also provided and the user can modify the source file to apply them.
 
Reference:
Alewell, C., Ringeval, B., Ballabio, C., Robinson, D.A., Panagos, P., Borrelli, P. 2020. Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion. Nat Commun 11, 4546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18326-7
 

Global soil P pools and soil P budget 

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Description: These files provide soil P pools in top soil layer (0-0.3m) of cropland for 2005 as well as soil P budget terms derived from farming practices (chemical fertilizer, manure, residue, uptake) and atmospheric deposition. Soil P pools in 2005 result from past soil P budget, past land use and cover change, and soil dynamics. The modelling approach used to compute soil P pools are described in Ringeval et al. (2017).

mean_2005.nc and std_2005.nc provide variables related to soil P pools and soil P budget. They are derived from Ringeval et al. (2017). Two files are here given: mean_2005.nc and std_2005.nc. 

They correspond to average and standard deviation, respectively, of 30 simulations allowing to take into account the uncertainty of each driver of the soil P, as descried in Ringeval et al.(2017).
 

Alewell, C., Ringeval, B., Ballabio, C., Robinson, D.A., Panagos, P., Borrelli, P. 2020. Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion. Nat Commun 11, 4546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18326-7

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 123604
Date - Time Sun, 01/11/2026 - 13:38
Name of User YiNing
Organization Yunnan University
Type of Organization University
-- Other
E-mail yningluo@163.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate the transfer of erosion flows among different types of cultivated land, based on the P-loss dataset
Notes

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