MONITORING NODES
EUROSION’s monitoring nodes cover water, wind and tillage erosion processes in Europe and beyond. They create a robust monitoring network to support the expansion, improvement and harmonisation of existing data, knowledge, and monitoring approaches – methods, indicators, and process-based models – in order to develop a pan-European dynamic soil erosion monitoring system to assess soil erosion status and trends across spatial and temporal scales and promote best management practices to agricultural land managers and decision-makers to reduce soil erosion.
Climate: Temperate oceanic
Sites: Field to catchment scale (40ha)
Crops: Rotation with potato, cereal, sugar beets, orchards, grassland.
Management practices: Conventional tillage, ‘eco-plowing’, ridges, hedgerows, grass strips.
Data: from 1990s.
Links: local farmers, regional water authority, province, farmers’ association, nature orgranisations and municipalities
Climate: Temperate oceanic
Sites: Field scale (60ha)
Crops: Arable land, vegetables, potatoes and cereals.
Management practices: Different management practices can be tested.
Data: scattered data over the past years.
Links: farmers, farm associations (LTP north), and with the province
Climate: Temperate continental
Sites: Field and farm scale (3 sites with different soil types)
Crops: Many crops
Management practices: Conventional and conservational practices.
Data: from 1991
Links: Federal Ministry of Agriculture Environment and Climate Change.
Climate: littoral, temperate continental
Sites: Field and farm on 4 sites (8ha)
Crops: Winter wheat, corn and sunflower crops
Management practices: Conventional management practices
Data: from 2017 (wind), and 1954 (water)
Links: Experimental Research Stations belonging to Romanian Academy, small and medium farmers.
Climate: semiarid, arid
Sites: Field scale on 3 areas (20ha)
Crops: Olive crops
Management practices: Traditional and intensive management, no tillage or annually, some parches with mulch from shredding tree pruning.
Data: no previous data
Links: olive oil farmer cooperative, regional and national administration.
Climate: semiarid, arid
Sites: Field scale on 3 areas (20ha)
Crops: Olive crops
Management practices: Traditional and intensive management, no tillage or annually, some parches with mulch from shredding tree pruning.
Data: no previous data
Links: olive oil farmer cooperative, regional and national administration.
Climate: Moderate climate
Sires: Field and catchment
Crops: Temporary grass-clover mixtures
Management practices: Conservation tillage
Data: Since 1998
Links: FOEN, FOAG, Service of soil protection of the Canton of Bern, and farmer association
Climate: Temperate climate
Sites: Field to catchment, 3 sites (5ha)
Crops: Barley and olive crops
Management practices: Conventional and conservation village
Data: Since 2019
Links: farmers association, wineries, Veneto region government, office of agriculture
Climate: Arid
Sites: field scale on experimental plots
Crops: Barley and olive crops
Management practices: Conventional tillage
Data: field campaigns since 1995
Links: Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Marine Fisheries and the Agricultural extension Service (CRDA)
Climate: Semiarid
Sites: field scale (2ha)
Crops: Wheat, barley, fallow, sugar beet, corn or potatoe crops.
Management practices: Conventional tillage
Data: from 2020 to 2024
Links: Chamber of Agriculture of the Ministry
Climate: dry-sub-humid to semi-arid
Sites: Field scale (8ha)
Crops: Grapes
Management practices: Dry-stone and mechanically constructed terraces
Data: Since 2015
Links: wineries, farmers, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development Network, Agricultural Payment Organizations
Climate: dry-sub-humid to semi-arid
Sites: Field scale (8ha)
Crops: Cereals, potatoes crops
Management practices: Conventional tillage
Data: No data available
Links: wineries, farmers, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development Network, Agricultural Payment Organizations
1. South-East of Norway (NIBIO)
2. South-Limburg, Netherlands (WU)
3. Valthermond region (WU)
4. Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany (ZALF)
5. Eastern Romania (UAIC)
6. Eastern Romania (UAIC)
7. Almeria and Jaen, Spain (UAL)
8. Almeria and Jaen, Spain (UAL)
9. Canton of Bern, Swiss (BFH)
10. Veneto region, Italy (UNIPD)
11. Governorate of Medenine, Tunisia (IRA)
12. Kayseri region, Türkiye (COMU)
13. Troodos Mountains, Cyprus (CYI)
14. Mesaoria Plain, Cyprus (CYI)
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