Soil of Russia in Global Programs

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Soil of Russia in Global Programs

• Vladimir Stolbovoy1
• Luca Montanarella1
• Freddy Nachtergaele2
• 1European Soil Bureau, EC Joint Research Center,
  Ispra
• 2United Nations Food and Agriculture
  Organization, Rome.
• Conference Scientific Session on Fundamental
  Soil Science Moscow State University, 30
  November-2 December, 2004

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Outline

• Need for Russia to be seen globally.
• Soil of Russia in global projects
• Global (revised FAO)
• Intercontinental (Circumpolar Soil database)
• European and Northern Eurasia (SOVEUR ESDB).
• Land resources of Russia.
• What is next?

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Shortcomings in global estimates
a.
c.
IIASA on ground Land Cover (1X1 km)
IIASA on ground NPP
?? ???????? ?2 ? ???
lt 0.1
0.1 0.21
Source CD-ROM Land Resources of Russia, 2002.
0.21 0.28
0.28 0.4
0.4 0.61
Source CD-ROM Land Resources of Russia, 2002.
0.61 0.87
IGBP space-derived Land Cover (1?1km)
gt 0.87
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Model-derived Global NPP
Foley et al., 1996
Comparison of areas
Comparison of areas
b.
d.
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Mosaic of changes in temperature and
precipitations (source IPCC, 2001)
Patterns of warming
Patterns of wetting
Changes have great spatial diversity and do not
following climate zones in Russia
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Russia representation in global soil collections
Global soil sampling (Batjes et al, 1996)
New EU Soil Database (Stolbovoi et al., 2001)
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Underestimate of carbon reserves in soils of
Russia
Soil carbon pool (based on Stolbovoi, 2002)
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International Programs
IUSSS International. Union of Soils Science
Societies
ESB European Soil Bureau
FAO UN Food Agriculture Organization
ISRIC Internat. Soil Reference Information Center
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Reproduction of national soil typological units
(STU) in International systems
12.5 M soil map 15 M soil map
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World soils

• 1995 FAO produces a CD ROM with a global vector
  map and derived soil properties with a 5 x 5
  resolution as raster.
• 1998 FAO-UNESCO re-issues the digital version
  with derived soil properties

More information on this product is available at
http//www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGL/l
wdms.htm
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Eurasian soils
More information on this product is available at
http//www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGL/l
wdms.htm
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Central and Eastern European soils
More information on this product is available at
http//www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGL/l
wdms.htm
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Circumpolar soils
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Soils of Europe and Northern Asia
More information on this product is available at
http//eusoils.jrc.it/
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Soil Regions of Europe R. Hartwich - BGR
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Source Stolbovoi, 2001. In CD-Rom Land
Resources of Russia, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Source Stolbovoi, 2001. In CD-Rom Land
Resources of Russia, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Source Stolbovoi, 2001. In CD-Rom Land
Resources of Russia, Laxenburg, Austria.
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Correlation as a tool to transfer soil information
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What is next Soil Atlas of Europe

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• What is next EU-SOIL COMMUNICATION 2002
  (COM(2002)179)
• Towards a Thematic strategy for Soil Protection
• Definition of
• - 5 Soil Functions
• Food and other biomass production
• Storing, filtering and transformation
• Habitat and gene pool
• Physical and cultural environment for humankind
• Source of raw materials
• - 8 Main Threats to Soil
• Erosion
• Decline in organic matter
• Soil contamination (local and diffuse)
• Soil sealing

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Thank you