We need to #SaveSoil to save our future! 🌱

With a possible #EUSoil Health Law, we want to grant soils the same level of protection as air, water or the marine environment

#EUHaveYourSay on our proposal by 24 October: europa.eu/!Cn9g97

#EUBiodiversity #MissionSoil

October

That’s AMORE! Soon I may abandon science and start tweeting on (Italian) politics🇮🇹😍

original by the one and only Silvio Berlusconi: twitter.com/berlusconi/sta…

when you listen in loop to song like this one it means there is something…

youtu.be/uX9k9aoX6gk

The yield 🌻🌽🌱 forecast at EU 🇪🇺 is 21% below the 5-year average. Positive news for Greece 🇬🇷 as the rainfall in August and the favorable temperatures support good yield expectations. More in the EU_ScienceHub Bulletin publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/han…

Let’s play soil biodiversity🦠🍄🪱🐜🤎🎶🎶

(great selection by Elizabeth Bach)

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For the first time, a global map of #soil biodiversity has been
created together europa.eu/!NT68rf #EUScience

1/11 We are excited to announce release of our paper 'Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates' science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Magazine News from Science National Science Foundation

The wood blocks😍

Do you know that we lose more than 100,000 tonnes of Phosphorus due to water erosion in 🇪🇺 EU? It is a huge cost for farmers 👩‍🌾, environment 🐟🌽 and society. Just think about eutrophication of freshwaters and algae bloom sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#LUCAS18 , largest 🇪🇺soil survey led by EU_ScienceHub

Here we present biodiversity & pesticide datasets:bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

>800 samples analysed for 🦠🍄🪱
>3000 for >100 pesticides
(spoiler: they overlap)

Protocols included = build your dataset for expansion/comparison🤩

Do you want to explore more about the Soil Biodiversity 🕷️🪱🌱and the pesticides 🌡️modules of LUCAS. #EUSO works in those two research topics. Just published: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

New study from EU_ScienceHub soil team.

Phosphorus (P) is key for plant growth & usually added to soil.

However, some soils in 🇪🇺 are rich in P. They may not need additional input = economic & environmental advantages!

Being a farmer, I'd check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Monitoring soils in the EU 🇪🇺. #LUCAS data are available for 3 periods: 2009, 2015, 2018. >20,000 surveyed points and OC, pH, NPK, EC, Fe, Al, texture and other Physical proporties. All free to download in #EUSO .Excellent for 🌱👩‍🌾🕷️🪱🌡️🌧️ assessments. bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

New paper led by Jose Siles about the potential of P cycling genes in genomes and in soil metagenomes across biomes. Thanks goes out to Tijana Martinovic, maysaparente, alberto_orgiazzi and Felipe Bastida for their help!

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The colorful soil biodiversity🌈

plan for the evening:

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Countries with lower GDP per capita 💲 and consumption of fertilizers 👩‍🌾in 2070 may experience the higher increase of soil erosion. More in Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water pnas.org/content/117/36…