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SoilTrEC: a global initiative on critical zone research and integration |
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| Authors: | Manoj Menon Svetla Rousseva Nikolaos P Nikolaidis Pauline van Gaans Panos Panagos Danielle Maia de Souza Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir Georg J Lair Liping Weng Jaap Bloem Pavel Kram Martin Novak Brynhildur Davidsdottir Gudrun Gisladottir David A Robinson Brian Reynolds Tim White Lars Lundin Bin Zhang Christopher Duffy Stefano M Bernasconi Peter de Ruiter Winfried E H Blum Steven A Banwart |
| Institution: | 1. Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, North Campus, Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ, UK 2. Soil Erosion Department, Institute of Soil Science, Sofia, 1080, Bulgaria 3. Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Polytechnioupolis, 73100, Chania, Crete, Greece 4. Deltares, PO Box 85467, 3508 AL, Utrecht, The Netherlands 5. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Varese, Italy 6. Institutes of Earth Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Sustainable Development, University of Iceland, Askja, Reykjavik 101, Iceland 7. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Street 82, 1190, Vienna, Austria 8. Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, Postbox 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands 9. Department of Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, Czech Geological Survey, Klarov 3, 118 21, Prague 1, Czech Republic 10. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 2UW, UK 11. Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 2217 Earth & Engineering Sciences Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA 12. Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7050, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden 13. Department of Soil Science, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhongguancun Nan Da Jie 12, Beijing, 100081, China 14. Geological Institute, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Abstract: | Soil is a complex natural resource that is considered non-renewable in policy frameworks, and it plays a key role in maintaining a variety of ecosystem services (ES) and life-sustaining material cycles within the Earth's Critical Zone (CZ). However, currently, the ability of soil to deliver these services is being drastically reduced in many locations, and global loss of soil ecosystem services is estimated to increase each year as a result of many different threats, such as erosion and soil carbon loss. The European Union Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection alerts policy makers of the need to protect soil and proposes measures to mitigate soil degradation. In this context, the European Commission-funded research project on Soil Transformations in European Catchments (SoilTrEC) aims to quantify the processes that deliver soil ecosystem services in the Earth's Critical Zone and to quantify the impacts of environmental change on key soil functions. This is achieved by integrating the research results into decision-support tools and applying methods of economic valuation to soil ecosystem services. In this paper, we provide an overview of the SoilTrEC project, its organization, partnerships and implementation. |
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