Science for policy 7: Don’t get bogged down: managing organic soils to mitigate climate change – datasets.

This dataset is part of Deliverable 4.2, 4.3 and 5.3 and produced by the WP4 team of the Landmark H2020 project. It contains the following shapefiles: PO7_OrganicSoils_CO2Equivalent.shp PO7_OrganicSoils_CH4.shp PO7_OrganicSoils_N2O.shp PO7_OrganicSoils_CO2.shp The shapefiles give an estimation of the change in the soil function “Climate regulation” and the relative reduction in CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions across the EU in organic agricultural soils when changing land cover (grasslands) and different management practices. This change in spatial variation is represented in change in z-scores compared to the current soil function performance on a NUTS1 level. More information regarding calculation and interpretation of both this dataset and the soil function maps used to calculate the z-scores can be found in: Vrebos D., J. Staes, R. Schulte, L. O’Sullivan, E. Lugato, A. Jones, A. Georgoulas and P. Meire (2018). Soil function supply maps. LANDMARK Report 4.2. Vrebos D., F. Bampa, R. Creamer, A. Jones, E. Lugato, L. O’Sullivan, P. Meire, R.P.O. Schulte, J. Schröder and J. Staes (2018). Scenarios maps: visualizing optimized scenarios where supply of soil functions matches demands. LANDMARK Report 4.3. and Jones A. et al. (2019). An options document to propose future policy tools for functional soil management. LANDMARK 5.3.