Bundle maps of soil based ecosystem services, soil threats and soil health at the European scale: What do you need to now to use them?
December 12, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Without soil, no life on terrestrial earth is possible as soil is at the base of many ecosystem services. Nevertheless, 60 to 70% of the EU-soils are unhealthy as they are submitted to several threats. As a result, many soil-based ecosystem services and soil threats have been mapped at the EU-level these last two decades. However, they were generally mapped one by one when they obviously interact. One way to represent these interactions is the use of bundle that is a representation of the co-occurrence of soil threats or soil-based ecosystem services in space and time. In that context, one of the objective of the SERENA EJP-SOIL project was to evaluate how to create bundles of soil-based ecosystem services and soil threats at the EU-level. This necessitate choosing indicators to evaluate the various soil threats and soil-based ecosystem services, databases, thresholds, a method to calculate the bundles. All these aspects will be explored before presenting a few bundle maps and discussing their interest for EU-soil management and the future soil monitoring law.
About the lecturer
Sophie Cornu is a pedologist investigating large-scale soil evolution in Europe, convinced by her experiences and results that soil characteristics can no longer be considered as constant on a multi-decadal to secular time scale. On that time scale, soils should be considered as a dynamic body which requires more quantification, kinetic analysis and modelling of their processes in order to consider their evolution in sustainable agriculture approaches and climate change adaptation/mitigation.
Sede Building (Room Aketxe), Scientific Park of the University of the Basque Country, December 12 (2024), 12:00-13:00
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