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Change of soil organic carbon stocks and the calculation of total N and SOC trends, and C:N ratio

Soil survey and monitoring are becoming increasingly important in fulfilling reporting obligations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Carbon stocks and stock change, status and trends of SOC, total N and C:N ratio, have to be reported annually in relation to GHG emissions. Land use and land management practices on national level, and not only for agricultural land, are also the key issues that need to be taken into account in SOC measurements and soil parameters analyses. In order to fulfill national reporting obligations and improve environmental monitoring data, in 2014, Croatian Agency for the Environment and Nature initiated the project “Change of soil organic carbon stocks and the calculation of total N and SOC trends, and C:N ratio”. Soil was sampled at 725 locations of representative land uses and depths from 0 to 30 cm. Soil sampling, physical and chemical laboratory analyses and data analyses are conducted in accordance to 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. All project results are included in GIS database containing spatial data, physical and chemical soil properties and analyzed data. Project results can be viewed or downloaded at ENVI Environment Atlas.

soil, organic carbon, Croatia, LULUCF, carbon stocks

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