Sustainable soil management to unleash soil biodiversity potential and increase environmental, economic and social wellbeing.

Project Information

SOILGUARD

Grant agreement ID: 101000371

DOI

10.3030/101000371

Project closed

EC signature date 5 May 2021

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost

€ 6 999 161,25

EU contribution

€ 6 999 161,25

Coordinated by

ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (22)

Report compiling the region-specific set of evidence chains- Final

Results of T5.1

SSM country analysis and recommendations

Result of T6.3

SOILGUARD Strategic Plan

Results of T1.1, T1.2 and T1.3

Report on region-specific economic and socio-cultural values of soil-mediated ES

Result of T4.2 and T4.3

Report on the region and biome-specific impact of climate stressors on soil biodiversity status and cascading effects on soil multifunctionality under different types of soil management - Final

Results of T3.2, T3.3 and T3.4.

Report on soil biodiversity status in Europe and international regions

Results of T2.2

Report on the region and biome-specific impact of climate stressors on soil biodiversity status and cascading effects on soil multifunctionality under different types of soil management

Results of T3.2, T3.3 and T3.4.

Report on the quantification of environmental, economic and social consequences of land degradation, soil management and climate change

Result of T5.2

Climate simulations features and set up in the different LTEs

Results of T3.1

Soil Biodiversity and Wellbeing Framework

Results of T1.2

Report on the region and biome-specific impact of soil management, land degradation and climate change on the environmental, economic and socio-cultural value of ES driven by soil biodiversity.

Result of T4.4.

Guidelines to implement interventions in which soil biodiversity acts as an NBS

Result of T6.1

Updated SOILGUARD Strategic Plan

Results of all WP1 tasks

Report compiling the region-specific set of evidence chains

Results of T5.1

Comprehensive policy and conservation briefs and recommendations for soil management and conservation

Result of T6.2

Integration Valuation Approach

Result of T4.1

Map of the cross-biome network of sites and land degradation gradients

Results of T2.1

Updated Soil Biodiversity and Wellbeing Framework

Results of T1.2

Soil Biodiversity assessment as an NBS

Result of T6.1

Report on the demonstration and application of the SOILGUARDIANS app in 7 EU NUTS-2 regions

Results of T5.4

Report on the region and biome-specific impact of land degradation and soil management on soil biodiversity status and cascading effects on soil multifunctionality.

Results of T2.3 and T2.4.

Report on the impact of SOILGUARD in the Conservation of Soil Biodiversity

Result of all WP6

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

SOILGUARDIANS app alpha version

Results of T5.3

10 Practice Abstracts

Result of Task 7.1

SOILGUARDIANS app beta version

Results of T5.3

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Impacts of Climate, Organic Management, and Degradation Status on Soil Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Worldwide

Author(s): Pablo Sánchez‐Cueto, Martin Hartmann, Laura García‐Velázquez, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, Giulia Bongiorno, Ron Goede, Melpomeni Zoka, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Charalampos Kontoes, Luis Daniel Olivares Martinez, Jorge Mataix‐Solera, Fuensanta García‐Orenes, Tomas Van De Sande, Helle Hestbjerg, Ina Alsina, Zoltán Tóth, María Paula Barral, Ximena Sirimarco, Joseph Blaise Dongmo, Jul
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70486

Valuation of soil-mediated contributions to people (SmCPs) – a systematic review of values and methods

Author(s): Daniel Johnson; Katja Schmidt; Charlott Scholz; Lena Chowdhury; Alexandra Dehnhardt
Published in: ECOSYSTEMS AND PEOPLE, Issue Volume: 20, Number: 1, 2024, Page(s) 2401945, ISSN 2639-5908
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group.
DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2024.2401945

Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations

Author(s): Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Martin Hartmann, Jonathan P Lynch
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, Issue 75, 2024, Page(s) 594-604, ISSN 0022-0957
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad421

Bridging soil biodiversity and human well-being: An actionable framework to measure links between the natural capital and plural value of soils

Author(s): Salvador Lladó, Lindsay Maskell, Laurence Jones, Cristina Yacoub, Pablo Sánchez-Cueto, Montse Bosch, Laurent Philippot, Martin Hartmann, Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Ron de Goede, Giulia Bongiorno, Elly Mörrien, Franciska T. de Vries, Santiago Soliveres, Angela Sessitsch, Markus Gorfer, Alexandra Dehnhardt, Katja Schmidt, Tomas Van de Sande, Helle Hestbjerg, Ina Alsina, Fuensanta García-Orenes, J
Published in: One Earth, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) 101391, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101391