Development of a harmonised soil profile analytical database for Europe: a resource for supporting  regional soil management

Kristensen, Jeppe Aagaard; Balstrøm, Thomas; Jones, Robert J. A.; Jones, Arwyn; Montanarella, Luca; Panagos, Panos; Breuning-Madsen, Henrik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-289-2019

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-289-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-289-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

Original research article

|

07 Oct 2019

Original research article |

| 07 Oct 2019

Development of a harmonised soil profile analytical database for Europe: a resource for supporting regional soil management

Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, Thomas Balstrøm, Robert J. A. Jones, Arwyn Jones, Luca Montanarella, Panos Panagos, and Henrik Breuning-Madsen

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RC1: 'Development of a harmonized soil profile analytical database for Europe: A resource for supporting regional soil management (RC)', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 May 2019
- AC1: 'Author response to Anonomous Referee #1', Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, 25 Jun 2019
  - AC2: 'Updated manuscript', Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, 25 Jun 2019
RC2: 'Review Anonymous Referee #2', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Final Response', Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, 20 Jul 2019
- AC4: 'Updated manuscript#2', Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, 20 Jul 2019

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (12 Aug 2019) by Bas van Wesemael

AR by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen on behalf of the Authors (20 Aug 2019) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (26 Aug 2019) by Bas van Wesemael

ED: Publish as is (28 Aug 2019) by John Quinton (Executive editor)

AR by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen on behalf of the Authors (03 Sep 2019)

Short summary

In a world of increasing pressure on our environment, large-scale knowledge about our soil resources is in high demand. We show how five decades of collaboration between EU member states resulted in a full-coverage soil profile analytical database for Europe (SPADE), with soil data provided by soil experts from each country. We show how the dataset can be applied to estimate soil organic carbon in Europe and suggest further improvement to this critical support tool in continental-scale policies.