Soil plays a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. In the 1990s ecosystem services (ES)
research focused on developing the concept and framework and only a few studies linked …

The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature
and in the media to the concept of “ecosystem” services of soils. The monetary valuation of …

Soil security, an overarching concept of soil motivated by sustainable development, is
concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the global soil resource to produce …

Soils and their functions are critical to ensure the provision of various ecosystem services
(ES). Many authors nevertheless argue that there are a lack of satisfactory operational …

Soils play a pivotal role in major global biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nutrient, and water),
while hosting the largest diversity of organisms on land. Because of this, soils deliver …

The ecosystem services and natural capital of soils are often not recognised and generally
not well understood. This paper addresses this issue by drawing on scientific understanding …

There is a nexus of seven inter-linked global existential challenges; Soil Security and Food
Security are two of these. The established concept of Food Security is well defined and …

Soil mapping, classification, and pedologic modeling have been important drivers in the
advancement of our understanding of soil from the earliest days of the scientific study of …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …