EEA geospatial data catalogue
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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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-10-01
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_r_3035_1_k_soilbiodiv-potential_p_2000_v01_r00
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 1 km
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01 2000-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Soil
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Land cover
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- GEMET
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land cover
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soil quality
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soil function
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soil capability
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soil
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biodiversity
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EU27 (2007-2013)
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- EEA topics
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Biodiversity
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Nature protection and restoration
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Soil
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Land use
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
- OnLine resource
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0
Soil biodiversity potential
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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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.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- d8d6ac30-da40-41a5-bcfb-d58f8ba118fa
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d8d6ac30-da40-41a5-bcfb-d58f8ba118fa
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-04-05T07:52:49Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:17:41.508193Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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