Soil threats and soil ecosystem services of interest in SERENA

Projektbericht

2023

142 S.

Serie

18514

40005420

This report from task 2.2 of the EJP SOIL SERENA project presents definitions, information and indicators related to soil threats, soil ecosystem services (SES) and their bundles relevant for European member states. A significant part of the work consisted in finding common harmonised definitions for the soil threats and ES between the 16 participating European member states in SERENA. Based on these harmonised definitions, a prioritisation of soil threats and SES was done by each member state. This resulted in an overall ranking of the soil threats and SES in order from high to lower interest for SERENA. The soil threat ‘Loss of soil organic carbon’ and the SES ‘Soil organic carbon and Greenhouse gas and climate regulation/carbon sequestration’ were scored with the highest priority. Finally, an additional translation was done from technical English to a non-soil-expert language for each soil threat and SES. This translation and the prioritisation of the soil threats and SES will be evaluated by the SERENA stakeholders in WP1 of the SERENA project. The selection of specific indicators and the assessment of thresholds for the soil threats and SES of interest in SERENA will be done by WP2 T2.3.