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Hence, a machine learning model was built for deriving this remaining sealing from aerial imagery. For this purpose, an assessor manually labeled the sealed parts on a subset of the images. Based on this training set, a convolutional neural network model was used to produce a sealing probability map, which was converted to a binary modelled sealing map. Finally, a continuity correction was applied to ensure a temporally consistent result across the yearly maps. \u00a0The objective of the SERENA project was to develop methods to calculate and map soil-based ecosystem services and soil threats. The selected indicator was the degree of soil sealing. 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Three countries out of 6 were able to give predictions for changes on the SES \u201cGHG and climate regulation\u201d. Two countries were working on the SES \u201cPrimary biomass production\u201d and could predict changes in \u201cErosion control\u201d on a national scale. \u201cHydrological control\u201d and \u201cEnvironmental pollution control\u201d was predicted in one country in 2 regions. Changes in climate, land management or land use change and their effects on ST could be predicted less often. Three countries could predict the effects ofchanges on \u201cSoil organic carbon loss\u201d and on \u201cSoil compaction\u201d, two countries estimated the loss ofsoil via erosion. Only one country each could predict effects of changes on \u201cSoil nutrient imbalance\u201dand \u201cSoil acidification\u201d and \u201cSoil sealing\u201d. 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The methodology uses vegetation and backscatter indices calculated over time series of images, and decision rules. The semi-automatic classification supports the subsequent photointerpretation phase based on national orthophotos and other free VHR satellite images. The final map is the product of a binary classification (sealed/not-sealed) having 10 m spatial resolution. The selected indicator was degree of soil sealing.", "keywords": ["ITALY", "soil threat", "soil sealing", "remote sensing", "SERENA EJPSOIL", "WP3", "Task 3.2", "H2020", "Grant n. 862695", "satellite images", "photointerpretation"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Smiraglia, Daniela, Congedo, Luca, Marinosci, Ines, De Fioravante, Paolo, ASSENNATO, FRANCESCA, Munaf\u00f2, Michele, Riitano, Nicola,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13951145"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.13951145", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.13951145", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.13951145"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.13969875", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-04T16:22:52Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2024-10-20", "title": "SERENA_EJPSOIL_AT_SOILSEALING_SEALINGDEGREE", "description": "The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales. \u00a0  This data was prepared according to the methodology of SERENA Soil Sealing cookbook. For Austria, the application was carried out at regional scale. The map of soil sealing (soil threat) was based on classification of multitemporal satellite images and photointerpretation. The methodology uses vegetation and backscatter indices calculated over time series of images, and decision rules. 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Please keep in mind that:  \u2022It is the result of a modelling exercise and does not necessarily reflect reality.  \u2022Despite the efforts made to provide reliable data, the results may contain inconsistencies, depending in particular on the raw data available and level of accuracy of the techniques chosen and their prior knowledge .   \u2022It is necessary to consider how the results have been obtained in order to decide on their relevance\u00a0in relation to the intended\u00a0purpose\u00a0of reuse.  \u2022These results are interesting from a scientific point of view, but their use\u00a0for environmental management and policy issues should be done keeping the previous aspects in mind and complementing when necessary the provided results with the best available data.   ==> Finally, it is the responsibility of the users of this information to decide whether it is appropriate to use these data and whether the data meet their needs. The authors of this resource can in no way be held responsible for the\u00a0results obtained from the use of this data.", "keywords": ["bundles", "soil sealing", "soil erosion", "Life Science", "GHG control", "soil-based ecosystem services", "soil threats", "SOC loss"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Hessel, Rudi", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13991087"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.13991087", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.13991087", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.13991087"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.14017852", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:22:55Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "D2.2_20240423_ProbeField_SSL_Metadata_V2", "description": "D2.2_ProbeField_SSL_Metadata_V2 consists of several soil spectral libraries (SSLs) produced by eleven European countries institutes including Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkiye, and Switzerland. The columns include institute, country, contact person(s), contact person(s) e-mail, beneficiary or linked partner or SSL outside EJP, name of SSL, location, SSL form, format, link, conditions, geographical coverage, number of sites, number of samples, sample representation, increment, spectrophotometer, state of soil sample, organic carbon, texture, models, sharing, sample availability and georeferenced field site(s).", "keywords": ["EJP SOIL", "ProbeField", "Soil Organic Carbon", "Lab and field spectroscopy", "EJPSOIL", "Soil sampling", "Life Science", "SOC", "Proximal sensing", "Soil Spectral Library (SSL)"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Stenberg, Bo, Bor\u016fvka, Lubo\u0161, Fantappi\u00e8, Maria, Sanden, Taru, Van Egmond, Fenny, Koganti, Triven, Klumpp, Katja, Debaene, Guillaume, Liebisch, Frank, Castaldi, Fabio, Cayuela S\u00e1nchez, Jos\u00e9 Antonio, Barbetti, Roberto, Madeno\u011flu, Sevin\u00e7,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14017852"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14017852", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14017852", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14017852"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.14134737", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:22:58Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Soil grid dataset of agricultural sites in the Czech Republic", "description": "The current dataset includes 320 topsoil samples (0\u201320\u202fcm depth) collected from four agricultural sites in the Czech Republic. 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The data were used in STEROPES WP1 (basic local model development), WP3 (effect of texture), and WP4 (effect of vegetation and plant residues).", "keywords": ["EJP SOIL", "STEROPES", "Soil Organic Carbon", "Soil sampling", "SOC", "Texture", "Agricultural sites"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Czech University of Life Sciences Prague", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14134737"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14134737", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14134737", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14134737"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-11-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.15114208", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-04T16:23:19Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "EJP Soil double sampling study (Task 6.3): physicochemical soil data of 166 Belgian LUCAS 2022 sampling points", "description": "EJP Soil Double Sampling Study:\u00a0 physicochemical data Flanders (Belgium)  During the elaboration of EJP Soil deliverable 6.3 of Work Package 6, entitled \u2018Proposal of methodological development for the LUCAS programme in accordance with national monitoring programmes\u2019 (Bispo et al., 2021), a large majority of partners (23) suggested to launch a double sampling study by collecting national soil samples on LUCAS points to compare LUCAS and National design strategies and sampling and analytical protocols.  For Flanders region, we conducted a double-double sampling study on 166 LUCAS points that were selected as representative for cropland, grassland and woodland soils.\u00a0  Each of these LUCAS points were sampled according to the LUCAS sampling scheme and the national (Cmon) scheme by our national surveyors (double sampling type 1) , and sampled by LUCAS surveyors (COBA group) for analysis by the LUCAS central lab so that also the laboratory results could be compared for the LUCAS 2022 campaign (double sampling type 2).\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0  The LUCAS 2022 campaign selected also for Belgium 11 LUCAS Biopoints: 5 in Flanders, 1 in Brussels region and 5 in Wallonia. At the EJP National HUB we agreed to sample all 11 Belgian biopoints both for physico-chemical soil properties (this study) as for soil biodiversity assessment through eDNA metabarcoding (Lambrechts et al., 2025).  The dataset comprises 3 CSV files: (1) list of sampling points with LUCAS pointID, coordinates and metadata, (2) the physico-chemical soil data of each point according to the LUCAS and Cmon sampling scheme, (3) the soil bulk density data according to the Cmon sampling scheme.  Samples were collected between 15 June 2022 and 23 May 2023.  Variables and units     Variable Description Unit Method   Thickness Layer thickness cm \u00a0   Depth Depth of layer (negative for forest floor) cm \u00a0   Sand Sand fraction by Laser Diffraction (LD) vol% ISO11277 & ISO13320   Silt Silt fraction by LD vol% ISO11277 & ISO13320   Clay Clay fraction by LD vol% ISO11277 & ISO13320   TC Total carbon g/kg ISO 10694   TIC Total inorganic carbon g/kg ISO 10694   TOC Total organic carbon (TC-TIC) g/kg ISO 10694   TN Total nitrogen g/kg ISO 13878   pH_KCl_v_v pH KCl 1:5 v/v - ISO 10390   EC_m_v Electric conductivity m/v \u00b5S/cm ISO 11265   EC_v_v Electric conductivity v/v \u00b5S/cm ISO 11265   pH_H20_m_v pH H2O 1:5 m/v - ISO 10390   pH_H20_v_v pH H2O 1:5 v/v - ISO 10390   pH_KCl_v_v pH KCl 1:5 v/v - ISO 10390   pH_CaCl2_m_v pH CaCl2 1:5 m/v - ISO 10390   pH_CaCl2_v_v pH CaCl2 1:5 v/v - ISO 10390   BD_mean Bulk density mean of 4 rep g/cm\u00b3 ISO 11272   BD_sd Bulk density stdev of 4 rep g/cm\u00b3 \u00a0   BD_CV Bulk density CV of 4 rep g/cm\u00b3 \u00a0   SWC_volp_mean Volumetric moisture content mean of 4 rep vol% \u00a0   SWC_volp_sd Volumetric moisture content sd of 4 rep vol% \u00a0     \u00a0  The data are evaluated in the report: De Vos, B. & Lambrechts, S. 2025. Comparing LUCAS and Cmon sampling schemes and survey data on 166 LUCAS 2022 points in Flanders, Belgium. EJP Soil Deliverable 6.3. Horizon 2020 EJP Soil grant agreement 862695. (to be published on Zenodo after Embargo period of 6 months).", "keywords": ["Soil", "soil sampling", "Soil fertility"], "contacts": [{"organization": "De Vos, Bruno, Lambrechts, Sam,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15114208"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.15114208", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.15114208", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.15114208"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.15730426", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-04T16:23:33Z", "type": "Report", "title": "PREPSOIL workshop report - Earth observation for soil health monitoring; obstacles and  proposals in overcoming them", "description": "Description of a workshop on 'Earth observation for soil health monitoring; obstacles and \u00a0proposals in overcoming them' held on 7 November 2024. The report is an addition to PREPSOIL 5.2, which contains a review of scientific knowledge (bibliography, expert opinions, current EU projects), an inventory of the technological resources mobilised (vectors, sensors, current and planned products, services), and the identification of obstacles to greater use of Earth observations for soil monitoring and measurement needs to reduce/minimise these difficulties.", "keywords": ["Earth observation", "Soil", "soil health", "soil sensing", "soil monitoring"], "contacts": [{"organization": "van Egmond, Fenny", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15730426"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.15730426", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.15730426", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.15730426"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-06-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/309244", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:08Z", "type": "Other", "title": "Agricultural Land Degradation in the Czech Republic", "description": "Closed AccessI would like to thank the teams that worked on Tudi project no. 101000224, EU ITN SOPLAS project no. 955334, and on project no. LTC20001 \u201cFire effects on soils,\u201d which contributed to some of the results reported in this chapter.", "keywords": ["Land collectivization", "Soil sealing", "Wind erosion", "Soil erosion", "Wild fires", "Pesticides", "Soil compaction"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Zumr, David", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/309244"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/309244", "name": "item", "description": "10261/309244", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/309244"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10459.1/83754", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-07-24", "title": "Post\u2010fire recovery of soil microbial functions is promoted by plant growth", "description": "Abstract                                                             <p>                       Forest fires can alter the biological properties of soils. There is increasing evidence that fires cause a shift in soil microbial communities, which play a central role in forest carbon and nutrient cycling. In this study, we evaluate the effect of soil heating on soil microbial functions. We hypothesised that fire reduces the catabolic functional diversity of soil, and that post\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire plant growth enhances its recovery. To test this, we experimentally heated a forest soil at 200\uffc2\uffb0C (T200) or 450\uffc2\uffb0C (T450). Heated and unheated soils were then incubated in tubs with or without live grass (                       Lolium perenne                       L.). We determined the functional profiles by measuring the substrate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced respiration (SIR) using the Microresp\uffe2\uff84\uffa2 technique and analysed nutrient availability at the end of the incubation. At both temperatures, soil heating altered the respiration responses to substrate additions and the catabolic functional diversity of soils. Functional diversity was initially reduced in T200 soils but recovered at the end of the incubation. In contrast, T450 soils initially maintained the catabolic functional diversity, but decreased at the end of the incubation. Heating\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced nutrient availability stimulated the growth of grass, which in turn increased the response to several substrates and increased the functional diversity to values similar to the unheated controls. Our results suggest that fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven alteration of soil microbial communities has consequences at a functional level, and that the recovery of plant communities enhances the recovery of soil microbial functions.                     </p>                                                           Highlights                     <p>                                                                           <p>Soil experimental heating altered microbial functions and reduced soil functional diversity.</p>                                                                             <p>Soil heating also increased nutrient availability, enhancing plant growth.</p>                                                                             <p>Growth of plants promoted the recovery of soil functional diversity.</p>                                                                             <p>Post\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire recovery of functional diversity may be related to the recovery of photosynthetic tissues.</p>                                                                     </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Incendis forestals", "Forest fires", "Aboveground biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil microbial functions", "S\u00f2ls", "13. Climate action", "Substrate-induced respiration", "Soils", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Catabolic functional diversity", "Forest soils", "Soil heating", "S\u00f2ls forestals"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejss.13290"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10459.1/83754"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10459.1/83754", "name": "item", "description": "10459.1/83754", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10459.1/83754"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "20.500.11850/504181", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:25:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-08-27", "title": "Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands", "description": "Abstract<p>Managed grasslands have the potential to store carbon (C) and partially mitigate climate change. However, it remains difficult to predict potential C storage under a given soil or management practice. To study C storage dynamics due to long-term (1952\uffe2\uff80\uff932009) phosphorus (P) fertilizer and irrigation treatments in New Zealand grasslands, we measured radiocarbon (14C) in archived soil along with observed changes in C stocks to constrain a compartmental soil model. Productivity increases from P application and irrigation in these trials resulted in very similar C accumulation rates between 1959 and 2009. The \uffe2\uff88\uff8614C changes over the same time period were similar in plots that were both irrigated and fertilized, and only differed in a non-irrigated fertilized plot. Model results indicated that decomposition rates of fast cycling C (0.1 to 0.2\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921) increased to nearly offset increases in inputs. With increasing P fertilization, decomposition rates also increased in the slow pool (0.005 to 0.008\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Our findings show sustained, significant (i.e. greater than 4 per mille) increases in C stocks regardless of treatment or inputs. As the majority of fresh inputs remain in the soil for less than 10\uffc2\uffa0years, these long term increases reflect dynamics of the slow pool. Additionally, frequent irrigation was associated with reduced stocks and increased decomposition of fresh plant material. Rates of C gain and decay highlight trade-offs between productivity, nutrient availability, and soil C sequestration as a climate change mitigation strategy.</p", "keywords": ["Soil modeling", "Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Environmental management", "Life on Land", "Environmental Science and Management", "Agronomy & Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "ddc:631.4", "Soil carbon", "Article", "Radiocarbon", "Environmental Management", "Geochemistry", "Transit time", "13. Climate action", "Earth Sciences", "Radiocarbon; Soil carbon; Soil modeling; Carbon sequestration; Transit time; SoilR", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "SoilR", "Soil modeling ; Article ; Soil carbon ; Carbon sequestration ; SoilR ; Transit time ; Radiocarbon", "Other Chemical Sciences", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10533-021-00838-z.pdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt2nv780zp/qt2nv780zp.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/20.500.11850/504181"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biogeochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "20.500.11850/504181", "name": "item", "description": "20.500.11850/504181", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/20.500.11850/504181"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2164/6134", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-05-13", "title": "Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives", "description": "Core Ideas                     <p>                                                                           <p>A community effort is needed to move soil modeling forward.</p>                                                                             <p>Establishing an international soil modeling consortium is key in this respect.</p>                                                                             <p>There is a need to better integrate existing knowledge in soil models.</p>                                                                             <p>Integration of data and models is a key challenge in soil modeling.</p>                                                                     </p>                     <p>The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil models has occurred in the last decades, models of soil processes remain disjointed between disciplines or ecosystem services, with considerable uncertainty remaining in the quality of predictions and several challenges that remain yet to be addressed. First, there is a need to improve exchange of knowledge and experience among the different disciplines in soil science and to reach out to other Earth science communities. Second, the community needs to develop a new generation of soil models based on a systemic approach comprising relevant physical, chemical, and biological processes to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of soil processes and their interactions. Overcoming these challenges will facilitate exchanges between soil modeling and climate, plant, and social science modeling communities. It will allow us to contribute to preserve and improve our assessment of ecosystem services and advance our understanding of climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change feedback mechanisms, among others, thereby facilitating and strengthening communication among scientific disciplines and society. We review the role of modeling soil processes in quantifying key soil processes that shape ecosystem services, with a focus on provisioning and regulating services. We then identify key challenges in modeling soil processes, including the systematic incorporation of heterogeneity and uncertainty, the integration of data and models, and strategies for effective integration of knowledge on physical, chemical, and biological soil processes. We discuss how the soil modeling community could best interface with modern modeling activities in other disciplines, such as climate, ecology, and plant research, and how to weave novel observation and measurement techniques into soil models. We propose the establishment of an international soil modeling consortium to coherently advance soil modeling activities and foster communication with other Earth science disciplines. Such a consortium should promote soil modeling platforms and data repository for model development, calibration and intercomparison essential for addressing contemporary challenges.</p>", "keywords": ["organic-matter dynamics", "550", "Sciences de l\u2019environnement & \u00e9cologie", "QH301 Biology", "Knowledge management", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "ECOSYSTEM SERVICES", "02 engineering and technology", "soil processes", "01 natural sciences", "Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience", "Sciences de la Terre", "Biological process", "ANZSRC::3707 Hydrology", "DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX", "SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR", "ANZSRC::4106 Soil sciences", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Climate change", "0503 Soil Sciences", "GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR", "Integration of knowledge", "Life sciences", "ANZSRC::050399 Soil Sciences not elsewhere classified", "synthetic-aperture radar", "Physical Sciences", "Water Resources", "Knowledge and experience", "MULTIPLE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES", "knowledge integration", "570", "DIFFUSE-REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY", "Environmental Engineering", "Physique", " chimie", " math\u00e9matiques & sciences de la terre", "Scientific discipline", "0703 Crop and Pasture Production", "0207 environmental engineering", "Soil Science", "soil science", "ORGANIC-MATTER DYNAMICS", "DATA ASSIMILATION", "Physical", " chemical", " mathematical & earth Sciences", "ANZSRC::0503 Soil Sciences", "Science disciplines", "PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS", "Feedback mechanisms", "mod\u00e9lisation", "ground-penetrating radar", "Science & Technology", "ANZSRC::080110 Simulation and Modelling", "15. Life on land", "Sciences de la terre & g\u00e9ographie physique", "multiple ecosystem services", "root water-uptake", "Observation and measurement", "DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL", "Quality of predictions", "SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW", "ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI", "sciences du sol", "HYDRAULIC-PROPERTIES", "2. Zero hunger", "Agriculture", "diffuse-reflectance spectroscopy", "4106 Soil sciences", "ORGANIC-MATTER", "digital elevation model", "SDG 13 \u2013 Ma\u00dfnahmen zum Klimaschutz", "Sciences du vivant", "Uncertainty analysis", "0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience", "Life Sciences & Biomedicine", "Crop and Pasture Production", "101028 Mathematical modelling", "international soil modeling consortium", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "Ecosystems", "Climate models", "QH301", "Environmental sciences & ecology", "Life Science", "SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELS", "data integration", "sediment transport models", "approche ecosyst\u00e9mique", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "3707 Hydrology", "soil modeling", "ROOT WATER-UPTAKE", "SOLUTE TRANSPORT", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Soil Sciences", "[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Earth Sciences", "Earth sciences & physical geography", "Soils", "101028 Mathematische Modellierung", "saturated-unsaturated flow", "Environmental Sciences", "root water-uptake", " sediment transport models", " diffuse-reflectance spectroscopy", " arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", " multiple ecosystem services", " saturated-unsaturated flow", " ground-penetrating radar", " synthetic-aperture radar", " digital elevation model", " organic-matter dynamics."]}, "links": [{"href": "https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/263634/1/Vereecken%20VZJ%202016.pdf"}, {"href": "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.2136/vzj2015.09.0131/fullpdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt6976n34c/qt6976n34c.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2164/6134"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Vadose%20Zone%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2164/6134", "name": "item", "description": "2164/6134", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2164/6134"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2164/9551", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-10-27", "title": "Plant exudates may stabilize or weaken soil depending on species, origin and time", "description": "Summary                                                             <p>                       We hypothesized that plant exudates could either gel or disperse soil depending on their chemical characteristics. Barley (                       Hordeum vulgare                       L. cv. Optic) and maize (                       Zea mays                       L. cv. Freya) root exudates were collected using an aerated hydroponic method and compared with chia (                       Salvia hispanica                       L.) seed exudate, a commonly used root exudate analogue. Sandy loam soil was passed through a 500                       \uffe2\uff80\uff90                       \uffce\uffbcm mesh and treated with each exudate at a concentration of 4.6 mg exudate g                       \uffe2\uff88\uff921                       dry soil. Two sets of soil samples were prepared. One set of treated soil samples was maintained at 4\uffc2\uffb0C to suppress microbial processes. To characterize the effect of decomposition, the second set of samples was incubated at 16\uffc2\uffb0C for 2 weeks at \uffe2\uff88\uff9230 kPa matric potential. Gas chromatography\uffe2\uff80\uff93mass spectrometry (                       GC                       \uffe2\uff80\uff93                       MS                       ) analysis of the exudates showed that barley had the largest organic acid content and chia the largest content of sugars (polysaccharide\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived or free), and maize was in between barley and chia. Yield stress of amended soil samples was measured by an oscillatory strain sweep test with a cone plate rheometer. When microbial decomposition was suppressed at 4\uffc2\uffb0C, yield stress increased 20\uffe2\uff80\uff90fold for chia seed exudate and twofold for maize root exudate compared with the control, whereas for barley root exudate decreased to half. The yield stress after 2 weeks of incubation compared with soil with suppressed microbial decomposition increased by 85% for barley root exudate, but for chia and maize it decreased by 87 and 54%, respectively. Barley root exudation might therefore disperse soil and this could facilitate nutrient release. The maize root and chia seed exudates gelled soil, which could create a more stable soil structure around roots or seeds.                     </p>                                                           Highlights                     <p>                                                                           <p>Rheological measurements quantified physical behaviour of plant exudates and effect on soil stabilization.</p>                                                                             <p>Barley root exudates dispersed soil, which could release nutrients and carbon.</p>                                                                             <p>Maize root and chia seed exudates had a stabilizing effect on soil.</p>                                                                             <p>Physical engineering of soil in contact with plant roots depends on the nature and origin of exudates.</p>                                                                     </p>", "keywords": ["construction", "0301 basic medicine", "EP/M020355/1", "seed exudate", "QH301 Biology", "610", "root exudate", "630", "QH301", "03 medical and health sciences", "DIMR 646809", "microbial decompisition", "Physical Processes and Function", "NE/L00237/1", "2. Zero hunger", "soil gelling", "BB/J000868/1", "Civil_env_eng", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "yield stress", "BB/J011460/1", "BB/L026058/1", "Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)", "soil dispersion", "viscosity", "Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "microbial decomposition", "yeild stress", "European Research Council"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/4980/1/Naveed_et_al-2017-European_Journal_of_Soil_Science.pdf"}, {"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/414238/1/EJSS_submitted_Manuscript.pdf"}, {"href": "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/ejss.12487/fullpdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2164/9551"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2164/9551", "name": "item", "description": "2164/9551", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2164/9551"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-10-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2445/190103", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-04T16:26:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-07-25", "title": "Post\u2010fire recovery of soil microbial functions is promoted by plant growth", "description": "Abstract<p>Forest fires can alter the biological properties of soils. There is increasing evidence that fires cause a shift in soil microbial communities, which play a central role in forest carbon and nutrient cycling. In this study, we evaluate the effect of soil heating on soil microbial functions. We hypothesised that fire reduces the catabolic functional diversity of soil, and that post\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire plant growth enhances its recovery. To test this, we experimentally heated a forest soil at 200\uffc2\uffb0C (T200) or 450\uffc2\uffb0C (T450). Heated and unheated soils were then incubated in tubs with or without live grass (Lolium perenne L.). We determined the functional profiles by measuring the substrate\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced respiration (SIR) using the Microresp\uffe2\uff84\uffa2 technique and analysed nutrient availability at the end of the incubation. At both temperatures, soil heating altered the respiration responses to substrate additions and the catabolic functional diversity of soils. Functional diversity was initially reduced in T200 soils but recovered at the end of the incubation. In contrast, T450 soils initially maintained the catabolic functional diversity, but decreased at the end of the incubation. Heating\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced nutrient availability stimulated the growth of grass, which in turn increased the response to several substrates and increased the functional diversity to values similar to the unheated controls. Our results suggest that fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven alteration of soil microbial communities has consequences at a functional level, and that the recovery of plant communities enhances the recovery of soil microbial functions.</p>Highlights<p> <p>Soil experimental heating altered microbial functions and reduced soil functional diversity.</p> <p>Soil heating also increased nutrient availability, enhancing plant growth.</p> <p>Growth of plants promoted the recovery of soil functional diversity.</p> <p>Post\uffe2\uff80\uff90fire recovery of functional diversity may be related to the recovery of photosynthetic tissues.</p> </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil heating", "soil microbial functions", "Incendis forestals", "Forest fires", "Aboveground biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil microbial functions", "catabolic functional diversity", "substrate-induced respiration", "S\u00f2ls", "13. Climate action", "forest fires", "Substrate-induced respiration", "Soils", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Catabolic functional diversity", "Forest soils", "aboveground biomass", "Soil heating", "S\u00f2ls forestals"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejss.13290"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2445/190103"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2445/190103", "name": "item", "description": "2445/190103", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2445/190103"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "PMC9185546", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:29:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-01", "title": "Agrobot Lala\u2014An Autonomous Robotic System for Real-Time, In-Field Soil Sampling, and Analysis of Nitrates", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>This paper presents an autonomous robotic system, an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), for in-field soil sampling and analysis of nitrates. Compared to standard methods of soil analysis it has several advantages: each sample is individually analyzed compared to average sample analysis in standard methods; each sample is georeferenced, providing a map for precision base fertilizing; the process is fully autonomous; samples are analyzed in real-time, approximately 30 min per sample; and lightweight for less soil compaction. The robotic system has several modules: commercial robotic platform, anchoring module, sampling module, sample preparation module, sample analysis module, and communication module. The system is augmented with an in-house developed cloud-based platform. This platform uses satellite images, and an artificial intelligence (AI) proprietary algorithm to divide the target field into representative zones for sampling, thus, reducing and optimizing the number and locations of the samples. Based on this, a task is created for the robot to automatically sample at those locations. The user is provided with an in-house developed smartphone app enabling overview and monitoring of the task, changing the positions, removing and adding of the sampling points. The results of the measurements are uploaded to the cloud for further analysis and the creation of prescription maps for variable rate base fertilization.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. 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