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Joint Research Centre (JRC)
MAES Soil: Related activities at JRC
and possible way forward
Luca Montanarella
European Commission
DG JRC.H.05
www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Land Resources Management Unit
Soil, the skin of the earth
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Soils for Sustainable Development
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Soils deliver multiple services (soil functions as identified in the
Soil Thematic Strategy COM(2006) 231):
Biomass production, including in agriculture and forestry;
Storing, filtering and transforming nutrients, substances and water;
Biodiversity pool, such as habitats, species and genes;
Physical and cultural environment for humans and human activities;
Source of raw materials;
Acting as carbon pool;
Archive of geological and archeological heritage.
Soil ecosystem services, soil functions
and their interdependencies
1. Biomass production, including
in agriculture and forestry
5. Source of raw materials
Soil biomass productivity of
croplands in the European Union
3. Biodiversity pool, such as habitats,
species and genes
THE ATLAS AS A CONTRIBUTION TO 2010, THE
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY
Simon Jeffery, Ciro Gardi, Arwyn Jones, Luca
Montanarella, Luca Marmo, Ladislav Miko,
Karl Ritz, Guénola Pérès, Jörg Römbke and
Wim H. van der Putten.
and the
European Soil Biodiversity Working Group
3. Biodiversity pool, such as habitats,
species and genes
THE ROLE OF THE GSBI IS TO PROMOTE SECURITY OF SOIL
BIODIVERSITY IN MANAGED AND NATURAL SYSTEMS.
FOUR KEY TARGET AREAS
1.) IDENTIFY KEY KNOWLEDGE GAPS LINKING SOIL BIODIVESITY
AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
2.) STANDARDIZE METHODS AND DATA SYNTHESIS:
Provide guidelines for the assessment of global soil
biodiversity.
3.) MANAGE SOIL BIODIVERSITY
Identify management options, from local to global scales, for
continued maintenance and increased delivery of ecosystem
services.
4.) INFORM POLICY
A core activity of the GSBI in the future will be the development
of the Global Soil Biodiversity Assessment (GSBA) that will
involve participants from all over the world. This assessment,
the first ever, will provide a basis for information that will be
useful to managers and policy makers.
The Assessment of Soil Global Biodiversity will clearly outline
the importance of soil biota in earth stewardship and human
well-being.
THE GLOBAL SOIL BIODIVERISTY
ASSESSMENT (GSBA) TO
INFORM POLICY
Key Features of the Global Soil Biodiversity Assessment
- Global Participation – scientists from all regions and biomes will
contribute
- Identify how soil biodiversity and its services can be measured
across the wide range of systems in the world
- Provide clear examples of how soil biodiversity directly influences
ecosystem services
- Address vulnerabilities of soil biota and ecosystem services
- Synthesis of scientific evidence on global impacts of soil biodiversity
for policy makers
- Recommend future management applications
JOIN US AND LEARN MORE
www.global soi lbi odi versi ty. org
@theGSBI
3. Biodiversity pool, such as habitats,
species and genes
http://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/
Towards a Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas
6. Acting as carbon pool
Organic Carbon (%)
Organic carbon
content (%) in the
surface horizon
(0-30 cm) of
European soils.
No Data
0-1
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2-5
5 - 10
10 - 25
25 - 35
> 35
4. Physical and cultural environment for
humans and human activities
Land take per administrative unit in the
period 2000-2006
Soil sealed surface in 2006
Status of mapping soil functions at
EU scale:
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Biomass production, including in agriculture and forestry: DONE
Storing, filtering and transforming nutrients, substances and water: ON-GOING
Biodiversity pool, such as habitats, species and genes: DONE
Physical and cultural environment for humans and human activities: DONE
Source of raw materials: DONE
Acting as carbon pool: DONE
Archive of geological and archeological heritage: ON-GOING
Mapping and assessment of SOIL ecosystems
and their services (MAES Soil)
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JRC will draft a work plan for the soil pilot, which will be discussed
with the co-lead and members of the pilot;
The note will then be circulated in a wider group (pilot friends) to get
additional information;
The work plan and participants list will be presented at MAES
Working Group of 6 March in Brussels; it can be expected that after
the MAES meeting of March, other MS may join;
JRC will compile the information, review it, and invite partners in a
second round to potentially provide actual data to perform an
assessment;
The results will be presented at the 17 September meeting of MAES
Working group.
Existing networks already supporting
soil related activities of the JRC:
• European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN)
• http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esbn/esbn_members
.html
• EIONET PCPs and NRCs for Soil
• http://www.eionet.europa.eu/ldaproles/?role_id=eionet-nrc-soil
• European Soil Partnership (ESP)
• http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/regionalpartnerships/europe/en/
• European Soil Biodiversity Working Group
• http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/library/themes/biodi
versity/wg.html
The 68th UN General Assembly declared
2015 the International Year of Soils (IYS)
http://www.fao.org/soils-2015/en/
Thank you for your interest!
http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/