Semantics about soil organic carbon storage: DATA4C+, a comprehensive thesaurus and classification of management practices in agriculture and forestry
<p>Identifying the drivers of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes is of the utmost importance to contribute to global challenges like climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss, or food security. Evaluating the impacts of land use and management practices in agriculture and forest...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2023-02-01
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Series: | SOIL |
Online Access: | https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/9/89/2023/soil-9-89-2023.pdf |
Summary: | <p>Identifying the drivers of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes is of the
utmost importance to contribute to global challenges like climate change,
land degradation, biodiversity loss, or food security. Evaluating the impacts
of land use and management practices in agriculture and forestry on SOC is
still challenging. Merging datasets or making databases interoperable is a
promising way, but still has several semantic challenges. So far, a
comprehensive thesaurus and classification of management practices in
agriculture and forestry has been lacking, especially while focusing on SOC
storage. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present a first
comprehensive thesaurus for management practices driving SOC storage
(DATA4C<span class="inline-formula">+</span>). The DATA4C<span class="inline-formula">+</span> thesaurus contains 224 classified and defined
terms related to land management practices in agriculture and forestry. It
is organized as a hierarchical tree reflecting the drivers of SOC storage.
It is oriented to be used by scientists in agronomy, forestry, and soil
sciences with the aim of uniformizing the description of practices
influencing SOC in their original research. It is accessible in Agroportal
(<span class="uri">http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/DATA4CPLUS</span>, last access: 24 March 2022) to enhance
its findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse by scientists
and others such as laboratories or land managers. Future uses of the
DATA4C<span class="inline-formula">+</span> thesaurus will be crucial to improve and enrich it, but also to
raise the quality of meta-analyses on SOC, and ultimately help policymakers
to identify efficient agricultural and forest management practices to
enhance SOC storage.</p> |
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ISSN: | 2199-3971 2199-398X |