Browsing by Author "Pindral, Sylwia"

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    Assessing and mapping changes in soil ecosystem services and soil threats in agroecosystems through scenario-based approaches – A systematic review
    (Elsevier, 2025-02-25) Scammacca, Ottone; Montagne, David; Asins-Velis, Sabina; Bondi, Giulia; Borůvka, Luboš; Buttafuoco, Gabriele; Cadero, Alice; Calzolari, Costanza; Cousin, Isabelle; Czuba, Martina; Foldal, Cecilie; Malli, Armin; Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Agnieszka; Kukk, Liia; Lumini, Erica; Medina-Roldán, Eduardo; Michel, Kerstin; Molina, María José; O'Sullivan, Lilian; Pindral, Sylwia; Putku, Elsa; Kitzler, Barbara; Walter, Christian
    Scenario analysis plays a central role in estimating how global changes affect the relationships linking ecosystem conditions and functioning to human needs. This is particularly true for agroecosystems, which are pivotal to ensure sustainable land planning, ecological management and food security strategies. Soils are key providers of multiple ecosystem services (ES) in agroecosystems but they are very sensitive to global drivers such as changes in climate, land use and cover. How agroecosystems should achieve sustainability, through optimizing soil capacity to supply ES while limiting the occurrence of threats, is a priority of EU policy agendas. Nevertheless, there is currently a lack of a comprehensive framework of scenario-based approaches to assess changes in soil ES (SES) and soil threats (ST). As a part of the project SERENA funded by the European Joint Program on Agricultural Soil Management, this study aims to: i) understand how drivers of global change are commonly studied in the scientific literature; ii) identify how some SES and ST are assessed in scenario-based approaches; iii) provide a preliminary discussion on how soil properties are represented in these approaches. Through a systematic review of 230 published articles related to seven SES and ten ST, this study highlights that not all SES and ST are considered with the same frequency and geographic distribution in scenario-based approaches. Despite a great methodological variability in the assessment and mapping of SES and ST, dominant methodological trends can be identified. SES are mapped more frequently than ST and, specific SES appear more disposed to spatially explicit assessments than others. Due to its novelty and complexity, research on this topic is limited to a small subset of ST or SES and projections of the combined impacts of climate, land use and management changes on multiple ST and SES should be a scientific priority to help policy makers.
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    Comparing LUCAS Soil and national systems: Towards a harmonized European Soil monitoring network
    (Elsevier, 2024) Froger, Claire; Tondini, Elena ; Arrouays, Dominique; Oorts, Katrien; Poeplau, Christopher; Wetterlind, Johanna; Putku, Elsa; Saby, Nicolas P.A.; Fantappiè, Maria; Styc, Quentin; Chenu, Claire; Salomez, Joost; Callewaert, Seth; Vanwindekens, Frédéric M.; Huyghebaert, Bruno; Herinckx, Julien; Heilek, Stefan; Harbo, Laura Sofie; De Carvalho Gomes, Lucas; Lázaro-López, Alberto; Rodriguez, Jose Antonio; Pindral, Sylwia; Smreczak, Bożena; Benő, András; Bakacsi, Zsofia; Teuling, Kees; van Egmond, Fenny; Hutár, Vladimír; Pálka, Boris; Abrahám, Dominik; Bispo, Antonio
    A recent assessment states that 60–70% of soils in Europe are considered degraded. Protecting such valuable resource require knowledge on soil status through monitoring systems. In Europe, different types of monitoring networks currently exist in parallel. Many EU Member states (MS) developed their own national soil information monitoring system (N-SIMS), some being in place for decades. In parallel in 2009, the European Commission extended the periodic Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) led by EUROSTAT to sample and analyse the main properties of topsoil in EU in order to develop a homogeneous dataset for EU. Both sources of information are needed to support European policies on soil health evaluation. However, a question remains whether the assessment obtained by using soil properties from both monitoring programs (N-SIMS and LUCAS Soil) are comparable, and what could be the limitations of using either one dataset or the other. Conducted in the context of European Joint Programme (EJP) SOIL, this study shows the results of a comparison between N-SIMS and LUCAS Soil programs among 12 different EU member states including BE, DE, DK, EE, ES, FR, DE, HU, IT, NL, PL, SE and SK. The comparison was done on: (i) the sampling strategies including site densities, land cover and soil type distribution; (ii) the statistical distribution of three soil properties (organic carbon, pH and clay content); (iii) two potential indicators of soil quality (i.e. OC/Clay ratio and pH classes). The results underlined substantial differences in soil properties statistical distributions between N-SIMS and LUCAS Soil in many member states, particularly for woodland and grassland soils, affecting the evaluation of soil health using indicators. Such differences might be explained by both the monitoring strategy and sampling or analytical protocols exposing the potential effect of data source on European and national policies. The results demonstrate the need to work towards data harmonization and in the light of the Soil Monitoring Law, to carefully design the future of soil monitoring in Europe taking into account both LUCAS Soil and N-SIMS considering the significant impact of the monitoring strategies and protocols on soil health indicators.
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    Mady w podziałach rolniczych i ich wartość użytkowa w Polsce
    (Soil Science Annual, 2024) Smreczak, Bożena; Jadczyszyn, Jan; Ukalska-Jaruga, Aleksandra; Niedźwiecki, Jacek; Pindral, Sylwia; Gregoliński, Dariusz; Łysiak, Magdalena
    Celem pracy jest przedstawienie podziałów mad użytkowanych rolniczo, analiza udziału tych gleb w rolniczej przestrzeni produkcyjnej i funkcji jakie pełnią na użytkach rolnych. Publikacja zawiera także charakterystykę niektórych właściwości fizyczno‒chemicznych tych gleb w podziale na kategorie agronomiczne oraz kategorie użytków gruntowych. W artykule wykazano, że w rolnictwie, w odniesieniu do mad dominują określenia wypracowane przez gleboznawców polskich przed II wojną światową oraz w wczesnym okresie powojennym obejmującym opracowanie tabeli klas gruntów oraz instrukcji w sprawie wykonania map glebowo-rolniczych w skali 1:5000 i 1:25000. Analiza zasięgów występowania mad na obszarach rolniczych przeprowadzona w oparciu o dane z cyfrowej mapy glebowo-rolniczej w skali 1:25 000 wykazała, że stanowią one 7,9% użytków rolnych ogółem. Wśród mad dominują mady właściwe, a ich udział w ogólnej powierzchni tych gleb stanowi 96,1%. Największy areał mad użytkowanych rolniczo występuje w dorzeczu Wisły (63,5%)oraz (35,8%). Ponad 25% mad na terenach nizinnych i wyżynnych została zaliczona do gruntów ornych 1 i 2 kompleksu rolniczej przydatności gleb, a 10,8% do kompleksu 10 w terenach górskich. Ponad 13% mad tworzy siedliska bardzo dobre i dobre (1z) dla łąk trwałych i pastwisk trwałych. Wartości odczynu w warstwie 0‒20 cm mad zlokalizowanych na gruntach ornych (GO) i trwałych użytkach zielonych (TUZ) mieszczą się w szerokim przedziale od 3,8 do 8,0. Odnotowano, że w GO zawartość form przyswajalnych dla roślin jest bardzo wysoka dla fosforu (P) oraz średnia dla potasu (K) i magnezu (Mg), a dla TUZ mieści się dla P, Mg i K odpowiednio w klasach zawartości: bardzo wysoka, wysoka i niska. Mady użytkowane rolniczo nie tylko pełnią w środowisku funkcję produkcyjną, ale też retencyjną i siedliskową, dlatego część z nich została włączona do sieci Natura 2000.
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    Soil resilience to degradation in Poland by 2050 under climate and land use change
    (Elsevier, 2025-09-18) Coblinski, João Augusto; Pindral, Sylwia; Siebielec, Grzegorz
    In Poland, approximately 62,000 ha of soil are degraded due to soil threats (ST). The spatial distribution and intensity of these threats evolve as a result of climate and land use changes. This study evaluates the co-occurrence of soil organic carbon (SOC) loss, erosion, compaction, and soil water retention (SWR), identifying areas susceptible to degradation, resistance, and soil resilience in Poland by 2050 under land use change and an extreme climate change scenario (SSP5-8.5, representing a high-emission pathway). For the first time in Poland, our findings demonstrate the co-occurrence of ST and reduced SWR by 2050, projecting that 47% of Polish soils may face some level of degradation, primarily due to compaction, erosion, SOC loss, and reduced SWR. The most affected areas are in the north, northeast, central, and the Carpathians. The Soil Condition Degradation Index (SCDI) classified 31% of soils as having low susceptibility to degradation, 10% as moderate, 2% as high, and 0.1% as having very high susceptibility to degradation. Conversely, the Resilience and Resistance Index (RRI) shows that 29% of soils will remain resistant or resilient to degradation, with 0.2% showing significant resilience (to three ST), 13% of soils will be resilient to two ST, and 16% remaining stable, showing resistance to change. The presented approach enables the identification of hotspots for targeted management under climate and land use changes, supporting environmental policies, especially the new EU Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law), and sustainable land management.
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    Understanding pedodiversity in the historical park: implications of human impact
    (Springer, 2025-08-12) Hulisz, Piotr; Pindral, Sylwia; Dziemińska, Anna; Kot, Rafał; Michalski, Adam; Dąbrowski, Michał; Markiewicz, Maciej
    Purpose This research explores how human activity, particularly in historical parks, has influenced soil diversity (pedodiversity) and altered soil properties over time, focusing on the Lubostroń palace park in Poland. Methods In 2019, field research included 34 soil drillings and 7 soil pits, yielding 29 samples analyzed for particle size distribution, pH, CaCO3, TOC, TN, available phosphorus, and magnetic susceptibility. A pedodiversity map was created based on an updated, WRB-reclassified 1:5,000 historical soil-agricultural map, refined using fieldwork, laboratory analyses, and the integration of current land use data. The pedodiversity index (PI) was calculated using Patch Richness and Shannon’s Diversity Index, ranked by the Jenks method, following PCA and bonitation procedures. Results The analyses revealed significant soil modifications, such as deposition of technic hard materials, heap materials, artifacts, and alterations in pH, phosphorus levels, and organic carbon content. These changes reflect diverse historical land uses, including residential, agricultural, and industrial activities. Spatial analyses showed that Brunic Arenosols and Brunic Regosols cover 46% of the park, while heavily transformed Technosols occupy 8.6% in built-up zones. High pedodiversity index values were primarily found in the central and eastern parts of the park, indicating intense anthropogenic influence. Conclusion The study demonstrated that over 200 years of intensive and multidirectional human activity strongly influenced soils in the Lubostroń park. The human impact led to various transformations that shaped the spatial pattern and increased soil diversity (pedodiversity), which was not recorded on the 1:5,000 historical soil-agricultural map. The applied approach enabled a detailed identification of these changes, which may support the reconstruction of past environmental conditions and sustainable park management.