Climate change in Europe. 2. Impact on soil. A review

Jones, Arwyn; Stolbovoy, V. S.; Ezio, Rusco; Gentile, Anna-Rita; Gardi, Ciro; Brechje, Marechal; Montanarella, Luca

doi:10.1051/agro:2008067

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“…Available soil water is a prerequisite for plant growth. In all climates suitable for agriculture, the water storage capacity of soils is a crucial property for soil functionality including the productivity function (AG Boden, 2005;Shaxson, 2006;Jones et al, 2009). It is closely correlated with crop yields (Harrach, 1982;Wong and Asseng, 2006).…”

Section: Soils and Their Constraints To Plant Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides soil structure, soil organic carbon is such a key indicator of soil quality, associated with many soil functions other than productivity. It is also beneficial to agricultural productivity (Kundler, 1989;Rogasik et al, 2001;Lal, 2006;Martin-Rueda et al, 2007;Pan et al, 2009;Jones et al, 2009) at a limited level of inputs of farming but specific targets or thresholds are difficult to specify (Sparling et al, 2003). Despite this difficulty, from a broader perspective of soil functionality, organic carbon must be evolved as a globally key indicator of agricultural soil quality.…”

Section: Targets and Steps To Assessing The Soil Productivity Functiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Global issues of the 21st century like food security, demands of energy and water, climate change and biodiversity are associated with the sustainable use of soils (Lal, 2008(Lal, , 2009Jones et al, 2009;Lichtfouse et al, 2009). Feeding about 10 billion people is one of the greatest challenges of our century.…”

Section: Introduction -The Demand For Information On the Productivitymentioning

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“…Soils have to provide several ecological and social functions (Blum, 1993;Lal, 2008;Jones et al, 2009). Based on a definition of Blum (1993) one of the six key soil functions is "food and other biomass production".…”

Section: Introduction -The Demand For Information On the Productivitymentioning

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Assessing the productivity function of soils. A review

Mueller

Schindler

Mirschel

et al. 2010

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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-The development and survival or disappearance of civilizations has been based on the performance of soils to provide food, fibre, and further essential goods for humans. Amongst soil functions, the capacity to produce plant biomass (productivity function) remains essential. This function is closely associated with the main global issues of the 21st century like food security, demands of energy and water, carbon balance and climate change. A standardised methodology for assessing the productivity function of the global soil resource consistently over different spatial scales will be demanded by a growing international community of land users and stakeholders for achieving high soil productivity in the context of sustainable multifunctional use of soils. We analysed available methods for assessing the soil productivity function. The aim was to find potentials, deficiencies and gaps in knowledge of current approaches towards a global reference framework. Our main findings were (i) that the soil moisture and thermal regime, which are climate-influenced, are the main constraints to the soil productivity potential on a global scale, and (ii) that most taxonomic soil classification systems including the World Reference Basis for Soil Resources provide little information on soil functionality in particular the productivity function. We found (iii) a multitude of approaches developed at the national and local scale in the last century for assessing mainly specific aspects of potential soil and land productivity. Their soil data inputs differ, evaluation ratings are not transferable and thus not applicable in international and global studies. At an international level or global scale, methods like agro-ecological zoning or ecosystem and crop modelling provide assessments of land productivity but contain little soil information. Those methods are not intended for field scale application to detect main soil constraints and thereby to derive soil management and conservation recommendations in situ. We found also, that (iv)

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Section: Soils and Their Constraints To Plant Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Targets and Steps To Assessing The Soil Productivity Functiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction -The Demand For Information On the Productivitymentioning

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Section: Introduction -The Demand For Information On the Productivitymentioning

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Assessing the productivity function of soils. A review

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“…Finally, in 2007, the IPCC and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. were awarded of the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". In the next section I report some effects of climate change in Europe (see also Feehan et al, 2009;Jones et al, 2009, Lavalle et al, 2009). …”

Section: A 100 Years-old Predictionmentioning

confidence: 99%