Table 2 LUCAS soil measurements and their relation to primary soil cycles, threats and when they are to be sampled; modified from ref. 69.
From: Soil natural capital in europe; a framework for state and change assessment
Soil para-meters measured in LUCAS | Soil Cycles | Soil Threats | LUCAS sample Year | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carbon cycle | Nutrient cycle | Water and Energy balance | Soil for-mation/erosion | soil erosion by water, | soil erosion by wind, | decline in soil organic matter in peat, | decline in soil organic matter in mineral soils, | soil comp-action, | sealing, | conta-mination, | salini-zation | deserti-fication | floo-ding and land-slides | decline in soil biodi-versity | 2009 | 2015 | 2018 | 2021 | 2024 | |
Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) | + | + | + | # | # | # | # | # | # | ++ | ++ | ++ | ||||||||
Soil Inorganic Carbon (SIC) | + | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | |||||||||||||||
pH | + | + | # | # | # | # | ++ | ++ | ++ | |||||||||||
Texture, and coarse fragments | + | + | + | + | # | # | # | # | # | ++ | ++ | |||||||||
NPK | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
CEC | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
EC | + | # | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
Sulphate sulphur, Na | + | # | ++ | |||||||||||||||||
Heavy metals | # | ++ | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
Nitrate Nitrogen | + | # | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
Organic Pollutants | # | ++ | ++ | |||||||||||||||||
Thickness of peat | + | # | # | ++ | ||||||||||||||||
Soil erosion | + | + | + | # | # | ++ | ||||||||||||||
Soil bulk density | + | + | # | # | # | # | ++ | ++ | ||||||||||||
Soil moisture | + | + | + | # | # | # | # | ++ | ++ | |||||||||||
Soil biodiversity | # | ++ | ++ | |||||||||||||||||
Land cover | # | # | # | # | # | # | CORINE DATABASE | |||||||||||||
Extent accounts | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | |||||||||||||
Mass accounts | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | ||||||||||||
