Map of SESs/STs Bundles for Estonian agricultural land

The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.

This map is the outcome of applying a bundles cookbook developed in SERENA based on soil threats (ST) SOC loss and erosion potential and soil ecosystem service (SES) biomass production. The resulting bundles are clusters of SESs/STs where the intra-cluster variability is lower than the inter-cluster variability in the mean values of the selected SESs/STs to identify the bundles. The generated map of SESs/STs Bundles for Estonian agricultural land is at the resolution of 100m. The input data for the cookbook was the Map of soil organic carbon loss of mineral soils in Estonia ; Soil water erosion potential in agricultural soils modelled by USLE, and primary biomass production.