TY - JOUR
T1 - SoilTrEC
T2 - A global initiative on critical zone research and integration
AU - Menon, Manoj
AU - Rousseva, Svetla
AU - Nikolaidis, Nikolaos P.
AU - van Gaans, Pauline
AU - Panagos, Panos
AU - de Souza, Danielle Maia
AU - Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala
AU - Lair, Georg J.
AU - Weng, Liping
AU - Bloem, Jaap
AU - Kram, Pavel
AU - Novak, Martin
AU - Davidsdottir, Brynhildur
AU - Gisladottir, Gudrun
AU - Robinson, David A.
AU - Reynolds, Brian
AU - White, Tim
AU - Lundin, Lars
AU - Zhang, Bin
AU - Duffy, Christopher
AU - Bernasconi, Stefano M.
AU - De Ruiter, Peter
AU - Blum, Winfried E.H.
AU - Banwart, Steven A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-013-2346-x
DO - 10.1007/s11356-013-2346-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 24310904
AN - SCOPUS:84893759236
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 21
SP - 3191
EP - 3195
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 4
ER -