Potential of soils to serve as a soil biodiversity pool, Oct. 2016

The dataset illustrates the potential of soils to serve as a soil biodiversity pool. The potential is expressed as an indexed value from 1 (lowest potential) to 10 (highest potential).

The potentials of soil biodiversity throughout Europe have been assessed and mapped by using critical thresholds of the selected variables (e.g. soil PH, texture, land cover among others) that potentially affect the conditions of soils for biodiversity and thus soil biodiversity levels. The dataset has been validated with existing data on soil biodiversity of different projects throughout Europe.

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Date (Creation)
2016-10-01
Edition

01.00
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_1_k_soilbiodiv-potential_p_2000_v01_r00
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian

Point of contact

No information provided.

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Soil

  • Land cover
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • land cover

      • soil quality

      • soil function

      • soil capability

      • soil

      • biodiversity

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • EU27 (2007-2013)
      Spatial scope

      EEA topics

      • Biodiversity

      • Nature protection and restoration

      • Soil

      • Land use
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

      Spatial representation type
      Grid
      Distance
      1  km
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
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      E
      W
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      Begin date
      2000-01-01
      End date
      2000-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( 1)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_k_soilbiodiv-potential_p_2000_v01_r00/eea_r_3035_1_km_soilbiodiv_2000.tif

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/d8d6ac30-da40-41a5-bcfb-d58f8ba118fa

      Direct download (Eionet authentication)

      OGC:WMS

             		https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Land/SoilBiodiversityPotential/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

      0

      ESRI:REST

             		https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Land/SoilBiodiversityPotential/MapServer
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance result

      Title

      Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

      Date (Publication)
      2010-12-08
      Explanation

      See the referenced specification
      Statement

      For all the details, please refer to

      Ece Aksoy, Geertrui Louwagie, Ciro Gardi, Mirko Gregor, Christoph Schröder, Manuel Löhnertz, Assessing soil biodiversity potentials in Europe, In Science of The Total Environment, Volume 589, 2017, Pages 236-249, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.173. ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717304229)



      The potentials of soil biodiversity throughout Europe have been assessed and mapped by using critical thresholds of the selected variables (see Table 1 in the paper) that potentially affect the conditions of soils for biodiversity and thus soil biodiversity levels. The thresholds (see Table 2 in the paper) are defined in line with levels that are expected to regulate soil biodiversity levels and range from 0 to 4, depending on the main parameters as described in the material section. Using these threshold levels and their corresponding scores, the general status of soil biodiversity potentials could be assessed and mapped on a European scale. The assessment of the soil biodiversity potential is calculated as the spatial sum of the re-classified layers of each indicator (see figure 2 of paper). The score of the land cover/land use indicator is used as a multiplying factor.



      For more information about the quality checks performed on the dataset, the document "eea_r_3035_1_km_soilbiodiv_2000_SpatialDataDeliveryReport.docx" is also made available with the dataset.

      Metadata

      File identifier
      d8d6ac30-da40-41a5-bcfb-d58f8ba118fa XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2022-03-28T08:19:17.81Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

      		Point of contact
       
       
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      Overviews

      overview

      Spatial extent

      thumbnail

      Keywords

      EEA topics

      Biodiversity Land use Nature protection and restoration Soil
      GEMET

      biodiversity land cover soil soil capability soil function soil quality
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Land cover Soil
      Spatial scope

      European


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