EJPSOIL_SERENA: Net Ecosystem Productivity of Peipsiääre municipality, Estonia

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 dataset is based on the evaluation of Net Ecosystem Productivity (NEP), a critical measure of carbon dynamics and ecosystem health reflecting the balance between gross primary productivity and total ecosystem respiration. Data were gathered for the SERENA GHG Cookbook application and include: Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) data from the 2014 MODIS dataset accessed via MODISTools in R, daily soil moisture data from Zhang et al. (2023), climate data comprising maximum and minimum monthly temperatures for 2014 from World Climate datasets, cropland data filtered for wheat from 2018 obtained from Sentinel-1 and LUCAS observations, and municipal boundaries sourced as vector data from the Republic of Estonia Land Board's Geoportal.  

The analysis focuses on NEP in the Peipsiääre municipality under North European pedo-climatic conditions during the active growing season. The dataset comprises two files: one representing the 8-day NEP in wheat fields of the Peipsiääre municipality (measured in gC m-2 for an 8-day period) and the other indicating the NEP in wheat fields during May (measured in gC m-2 during May). These files are titled SERENA_EJPSOIL_EE_GHG Cookbook_NEP_April8days_wheat_yields and SERENA_EJPSOIL_EE_GHG Cookbook_NEP_May_wheat_yield, respectively, and are both formatted in GPKG.