MANAGING SOIL FUNCTIONALITY ACROSS EUROPE: THE … · Pillar 1: Farm scale: Develop an agricultural...

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 635201.

BAMPA FRANCESCA, CHRISTIAN BUGGE HENRIKSEN, ARWYN JONES, ROGIER SCHULTE AND RACHEL CREAMER

REMTECH EUROPE – International conference on Regulatory framework and Innovative CharacterizationFERRARA, 18TH OCTOBER 2019

MANAGING SOIL FUNCTIONALITY ACROSS EUROPE: THE LANDMARK

PROJECT

www.landmark2020.eu email [email protected] twitter @Landmark2020 16/09/20194


Nutrient Cycling

6Alfred, Landmark Roundtable 7, Vienna, Austria, 2018


DEMANDS ON OUR LAND: 5 SOIL FUNCTIONS

Primary Productivity

Nutrient CyclingHabitat for functional

and intrinsic biodiversity

Carbon sequestration and climate regulation

Water regulation and

purification

All soils / land perform all functions …but different parts of the

land(scape/management) are better at delivering different functions

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Objective: to quantify the supply of soil functions across the EU as determined by

soil properties, land use and soil management practices.

LAND MANAGEMENT: ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE BASE

Landmark launch, co Wexford, Ireland 2015


PROJECT OUTCOMES

Pillar 1: Farm scale: Develop an agricultural Decision Support Tool (DST) for soil management – the Soil Navigator

Pillar 2: Country scale: Design a monitoring scheme for Soil Functions that is applicable at regional scale, for a range of soil types, land uses and pedo-climatic zones;

Pillar 3: EU scale: Develop a policy framework for ‘Functional Land Management’ at European scale that aims to optimise the sustainable use of Europe’s soil resource

More info http://landmark2020.eu/pillars/

http://landmark2020.eu/pillars/


http://landmark2020.eu/landmark-glossary/

http://landmark2020.eu/landmark-glossary/#m


Metzger et al. 2005

Which is the existing knowledge, knowledge requirements and prioritization of soil functions between stakeholders in Europe?• 1 year• 5 countries• 32 workshops• 473 participants

Sturel S. et al. (2018) Report on optimised suites of soil functions, as prioritised by stakeholder groups, LANDMARK Deliverable D1.2, http://landmark2020.eu/work-package/work-package-1/

STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION

http://landmark2020.eu/work-package/work-package-1/


WHICH IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOILACROSS DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS?

Bampa, F. et al. (2019), Harvesting European knowledge on soil functions and land

management using Multi Criteria Decision Analysis. Soil Use and Management.

DEXi a program for Multi-Attribute Decision Making https://kt.ijs.si/MarkoBohanec/dexi.html

SOILKNOWLEDGEDEXI TREE

https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12506

https://kt.ijs.si/MarkoBohanec/dexi.html


Requests for the establishment of a harmonized national system for soil monitoring (in countries

where it doesn’t exist)

Monitoring soil functions would be appreciated

Include Long Term experiments in soil

monitoring schemes


http://landmark2020.eu/stakeholders-platform/

http://landmark2020.eu/stakeholders-platform/


THE LANDMARK DATAWAREHOUSE

Original (raw soil, environmental, climate) data to feed the DEXI models

Soil profile data

Modeling approachDiagnostic approach

P i l l a r 1

+ EU Soil database

P i l l a r 2

JRC EU maps

P i l l a r 3

Mapping approach


CONCEPTUAL SOIL FUNCTIONS MODELLING FRAMEWORK


CARBONSEQUESTRATION AND

CLIMATEREGULATION DEXI

TREE

82 %


Van der Broek M. et al (2019) Assessing the Climate Regulation Potential of Agricultural Soils Using a Decision Support Tool Adapted to Stakeholders’ Needs and Possibilities, Frontiers in Environmental Science , 7, 113. .

Bugge Henriksen et al. 2018. LANDMARK report D 3.3., Wageningen, The Netherlands, 23 pp.

CARBONSEQUESTRATION AND

CLIMATEREGULATION DEXI

TREE

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00131/full


FARM SCALE DECISION: THE SOIL NAVIGATOR


Visit www.soilnavigator.eu


http://www.soilnavigator.eu/



Visit www.soilnavigator.eu

http://www.soilnavigator.eu/


COUNTRY SCALE DECISION: REGIONAL SOIL MONITORING

van Leeuwen, J.P. Saby, N.P.A., Jones, A., Louwagie, G., Micheli, E., Rutgers, M., Schulte, R.P.O., Spiegel, H., Toth, G., Creamer, R.E. (2017). Gap assessment in current Soil Monitoring Networks across Europe for measuring soil functions. Environmental Research Letters.

How do we measure and monitor soil

functions?


Groundwater Depth

CEC

KP

Texture

Rooting depth

Bulk Density

C:NpH

Soil organic matter

Annual precipitationAnnual Ave Temp

Tillage

Crop residues

NPP (Yield) N offtake

Earthworm diversity

Crop diversity

Fungal biomass

Nematode diversity

Bacterial biomass

No. of crops in rotationCover crops

Hydraulic ConductivityWilting point days

Infiltration Capacity

Soil drainage class

Biological Physical Chemical SOIL ATTRIBUTES:

MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTES: CLIMATE ATTRIBUTES:

No. of days > 5OC

Mineral N FertiliserOrganic N Fertiliser

Mineral P FertiliserOrganic P FertiliserLivestock density

Pest ManagementIrrigation

Salinity

% Legumes

Type of crops

MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE


COUNTRY SCALE DECISION: SAMPLING AND TESTING SOILFUNCTIONALITY MONITORING SYSTEM ACROSS EUROPE


A GLANCE AT ITALYLand Use Soil Climatic

zoneN

sites OC (%) N nematodes /100gr soil

N earthworm

s /m2cereal

Argic

Alpine south

1 2.07 1473.381 17grassland 1 2.42 3629.503 29

cereal

Mediterranean north

2 1.875 1358.911 38

grassland 2 2.88 2424.168 93

cerealCalcic

4 2.0075 939.1434 11

grassland 2 3.22 862.4629 48

cereal Cambic 1 1.96 3313.818 6


Biodiversity

GRASSLAND

ARABLE

high

med

ium

low

Testing the Soil navigator DSS with the data collected in order to assess the multifunctionality of the sites.

What is the soil multifunctionality of the 94 farms visited across Europe?


Function scores of 94 farms visited across Europe

Stacked bar graphs of high and low function scores by climate and land use types

Want to know more?

Visit our poster n 30“Developing a novel

framework for monitoring soil

functions” by Marie Zwetsloot et al.

What is the soil multifunctionality of the

94 farms visited across Europe?


EUROPEAN SCALE : POLICY DECISIONPathway Existing Policy Instruments

Market Mandatory Voluntary

Land Use Management (National / EU)

Farm Management (local)

Valu

e-ch

ain

Designation ofNATURA 2000 &

High Status Waterbodies

Manure trading

Agri-environment schemesNitrates

Marketing

Quality assurance schemes

Areas of Natural Constraint

Afforestation Schemes

River Basin District Management Plans

Environmental Impact

AssessmentSingle Farm

Payment

Greening measures

GAEC

Vrebos, D., Bampa, F., Creamer, E. R., Gardi, C., Ghaley, B. B., Jones, A., Rutgers, M., Sandén, T., Staes, J., Meire, P. (2017), The Impact of Policy Instruments on Soil Multifunctionality in the European Union. Sustainability. doi:10.3390/su9030407

http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/3/407


QUANTIFYING SOIL FUNCTION DEMAND METRICS ACROSS EUROPE

Schulte et al. (2019) Demands on land: Mapping competing societal expectations for the functionality of agricultural soils in Europe . Environmental Science and Policy, 100, 113-125.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.06.011


SUPPLY OF SOIL FUNCTION = F (SOIL, ENVIRONMENT, MANAGEMENT)

Bayesian Belief Models (BBNs)

Projected changes in the supply of soil

functions under DIFFERENT SOCIETAL

DEMANDS.


LANDMARK FINAL CONFERENCE

LAND MANAGEMENT IN THE ERA OF THE NEW CAP LANDMARK: Strategic Research for Strategic Plans

23rd October 2019 10.00-13.00

Charlemagne Building, Lord Jenkins Room, Rue de la Loi 170, Bruxelles, Belgium

Agenda and registration at http://landmark2020.eu/meeting/landmark-final-conference/

http://landmark2020.eu/meeting/landmark-final-conference/

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