World's soils are under threat

Montanarella, Luca; Pennock, Daniel Jon; McKenzie, Neil; Badraoui, Mohamed; Chude, Victor; Baptista, Isaurinda; Mamo, Tekalign; Yemefack, Martin; Singh Aulakh, Mikha; Yagi, Kazuyuki; Young Hong, Suk; Vijarnsorn, Pisoot; Zhang, Gan-Lin; Arrouays, Dominique; Black, Helaina; Krasilnikov, Pavel; Sobocká, Jaroslava; Alegre, Julio; Henriquez, Carlos Roberto; de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Maria; Taboada, Miguel; Espinosa-Victoria, David; AlShankiti, Abdullah; AlaviPanah, Sayed Kazem; Elsheikh, Elsiddig Ahmed El Mustafa; Hempel, Jon; Camps Arbestain, Marta; Nachtergaele, Freddy; Vargas, Ronald

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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29 Feb 2016

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World's soils are under threat

Luca Montanarella, Daniel Jon Pennock, Neil McKenzie, Mohamed Badraoui, Victor Chude, Isaurinda Baptista, Tekalign Mamo, Martin Yemefack, Mikha Singh Aulakh, Kazuyuki Yagi, Suk Young Hong, Pisoot Vijarnsorn, Gan-Lin Zhang, Dominique Arrouays, Helaina Black, Pavel Krasilnikov, Jaroslava Sobocká, Julio Alegre, Carlos Roberto Henriquez, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Miguel Taboada, David Espinosa-Victoria, Abdullah AlShankiti, Sayed Kazem AlaviPanah, Elsiddig Ahmed El Mustafa Elsheikh, Jon Hempel, Marta Camps Arbestain, Freddy Nachtergaele, and Ronald Vargas

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Final revised paper (published on 29 Feb 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 09 Dec 2015)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C660: 'Review Comments', Donald Sparks, 01 Jan 2016
- AC C760: 'reply to reviewer 1', Dominique Arrouays, 15 Feb 2016
RC C714: 'comment on MS by Montanarella et al.', Claire Chenu, 27 Jan 2016
- AC C761: 'response to reviewer 2', Dominique Arrouays, 15 Feb 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (15 Feb 2016) by Axel Don

ED: Publish as is (24 Feb 2016) by Kristof Van Oost (Executive editor)

AR by Dominique Arrouays on behalf of the Authors (26 Feb 2016)

Short summary

The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World's Soil Resources Report. The gravest threats were identified for all the regions of the world. This assessment forms a basis for future soil monitoring. The quality of soil information available for policy formulation must be improved.