Fact Sheets

Fact sheets produced from the RECARE project can be found below. Please click on the links to download the pdfs.

Soil Threat Fact Sheets


Soil erosion by water (PT, DE)	Soil erosion by wind	Soil Salinization (EL)	Soil Compaction

Soil Sealing	Floods and Landslides	OM decline in peat soils (SE, NL)	OM decline in mineral soils (IT, NL)

Soil contamination (ES)	Desertification	Loss of Soil Biodiversity

Case Study Experiment Fact Sheets

Soil threat	Fact sheet title	Case study country
Soil erosion	Effect of the Dyker on infiltration, soil erosion and waterlogging	Switzerland
Soil erosion	Post-fire mulching to reduce soil erosion (EN) (PT1) (PT2)	Portugal
Soil erosion	Effects of mountain terrace rehabilitation (EN) (EL)	Cyprus
Soil salinization	Solutions for preventing soil salinization	Crete
Soil erosion	Use of straw mulch to prevent soil erosion in vineyards	Spain
Soil erosion	Use of chipped pruned branches to prevent soil erosion in apricot orchards	Spain
Soil erosion	Rock fragment cover to control soil losses in tillage rainfed Mediterranean crops	Spain
Soil erosion	Use of land abandonment to prevent soil erosion in mountainous areas	Spain
Soil erosion and desertification	Reclaiming wind eroded and desertified land	Iceland
Flooding and landslides	Preventing floods & landslides through stream bank stability (EN) (NO)	Norway
Flooding	Preventing flooding through small retention ponds (EN) (NO)	Norway
Flooding and soil erosion	Effects of different crops on surface runoff (EN) (SK)	Slovakia
Soil erosion	Preventing gully erosion (EN) (SK)	Slovakia
Soil erosion	Understanding erosion processes & sediment transport (EN) (SK)	Slovakia
Increasing or maintaining soil organic matter	Undersowing of grass in maize (EN) (NL)	The Netherlands
Increasing or maintaining soil organic matter	Incorporation of local biomass (EN) (NL)	The Netherlands
Soil contamination	Phytoremediation of soil contamination by trace elements (EN) (ES)	Spain
Soil contamination	Modelling soil contamination remediation measures (EN) (ES)	Spain
Soil contamination	Use of amendements for heavy metal soil pollution (EN) (RO)	Romania