Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils (HoliSoils)

Luonnonvarakeskus-LUKE, FI
Mikrobiologicky Ustav AV CR V.V.I.-IMIC, CZ
Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique-CNRS, FR, public
Johann Heinrich Von Thuenen-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut Fuer Laendliche Raeume, Wald Und Fischerei-Ti, DE
Asociacion Bc3 Basque Centre For Climate Change - Klima Aldaketa Ikergai-BC3, ES
Stichting-Vu, NL
European Forest Institute-EFI, FI
Stichting Wageningen Research-WR, NL
Stichting International Soil Reference And Information Centre-ISRIC, NL
Stockholms Universitet-SU, SE
Universitatea Transilvania Din Brasov-UTBV, RO
Universitat De Barcelona-UB, ES
The University Court Of The University Of Aberdeen-UNIABDN, UK
Vytauto Didziojo Universitetas-VMU, LT
Universite D'aix Marseille-AMU, FR
Technische Universitaet Muenchen-TUM, DE,
Technicka Univerzita Vo Zvolene-TUZVO, SK
Consorci Centre De Ciencia I Tecnologia Forestal De Catalunya-CTFC, ES
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria-INIA, UY

FY 2021-2025 EU Horizon2020

HASHIMOTO, Shoji (Department of Forest Soils / Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change)
(Project leader; Mäkipää, Raisa, Natural Resources Institute Finland)

Knowledge gaps on forest soil processes and lack of a harmonised soil monitoring limit the EU’s ability to maintain soil related ecosystem services and to reach climate policy targets.
A better understanding of the soil processes and a harmonised approach to manage and integrate data to computational models that are used for decision making is urgently required in order to meet climate and sustainability goals, including the UN’s Agenda 2030 SDGs, the Paris Agreement of Climate Convention, the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, the EU’s LULUCF Regulation, the EU Forest Strategy (2018), and the European Green Deal.

HoliSoils (Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils) provides an improved, integrated, and harmonised monitoring and modelling framework for forest soils across Europe.
HoliSoils incorporates novel methodologies and expert knowledge on analytical techniques, data sharing, soil properties and biodiversity, and processes with model development. It develops tools for soil monitoring, refines GHG assessment of the LULUCF sector, enhances efficiency of GHG mitigation actions, and improves numerical forecasting of soil-based mitigation, adaptation, and ecosystem services.

Harmonised approach of:
Analytical techniques
Data and model sharing
Soil properties, biodiversity and ecosystem services
Monitoring
Tools for soil monitoring
Soil model development
Climate-Smart Forest management practices for soils
Forward-looking analysis to evaluate soil-based mitigation and adaptation options

More information:
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Project brochure ( External link )

Raisa Mäkipää, Rose Abramoff, Bartosz Adamczyk, Virginie Baldy, Charlotte Biryol, Michal Bosela, Pere Casals, Jorge Curiel Yuste, Marta Dondini, Sara Filipek, Jordi Garcia-Pausas, Raphael Gros, Erika Gömöryová, Shoji Hashimoto, Mariana Hassegawa, Peter Immonen, Raija Laiho, Honghong Li, Qian Li, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Claire Menival, Taiki Mori, Kim Naudts, Mathieu Santonja, Aino Smolander, Jumpei Toriyama, Boris Tupek, Xavi Ubeda, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Aleksi Lehtonen (2023) How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? – A review, Forest Ecology and Management, 529: 120637 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120637

Raisa Mäkipää, Rose Abramoff, Bartosz Adamczyk, Virginie Baldy, Charlotte Biryol, Michal Bosela, Pere Casals, Jorge Curiel Yuste, Marta Dondini, Sara Filipek, Jordi Garcia-Pausas, Raphael Gros, Erika Gömöryová, Shoji Hashimoto, Mariana Hassegawa, Peter Immonen, Raija Laiho, Honghong Li, Qian Li, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Claire Menival, Taiki Mori, Kim Naudts, Mathieu Santonja, Aino Smolander, Jumpei Toriyama, Boris Tupek, Xavi Ubeda, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Aleksi Lehtonen (2023) Forest soils can increase climate change mitigation with targeted management. Policy Brief 7. European Forest Institute. https://doi.org/10.36333/pb7

In Japanese: https://holisoils.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/HoliSoils-Policy-Brief-1_Japanese.pdf

Boris Ťupek, Aleksi Lehtonen, Alla Yurova, Rose Abramoff, Bertrand Guenet, Elisa Bruni, Samuli Launiainen, Mikko Peltoniemi, Shoji Hashimoto, Xianglin Tian, Juha Heikkinen, Kari Minkkinen, and Raisa Mäkipää (2024) Modelling boreal forest's mineral soil and peat C dynamics with the Yasso07 model coupled with the Ricker moisture modifier, Geoscientific Model Development: 17, 5349–5367, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5349-2024

Policy Brief
Raisa Mäkipää, Sarah Adams, Petr Baldrian, P. Casals Tortras, Jorge Curiel Yuste, Bertrand Guenet, Sebastian Luyssaert, Mathieu Santonja, Nicole Wellbrock, Aleksi Lehtonen (2024) Forest soil challenges in Europe: solutions through sustainable forest management and monitoring, HoliSoils Policy Brief #2, http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-419-029-9