SOILS4MED DELIVERABLE 4.2 - SUMMARY FOR DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION: Study areas and integrated Mediterranean Region-wide experimental setting

Abstract

Deliverable 4.2 is the main product of Task 4.2 within Work Package 4. The objective of the Task is to delineate the study areas (location, extent) with the purpose of ensuring that the overall set of study areas can constitute the kind of Mediterranean Region (MR)-wide experimental design that the project needs in order to address its research questions. The identification of suitable study areas is essential to test the soil ecosystem health (SEH) indicators and the monitoring protocol across the different contexts of the MR, taking into account the different agroecological regions, soil types, and levels of soil degradation. An intermediate objective of the Task included the establishment of a centralized project GIS, based on the integration of multiple information layers useful to characterize and compare the areas.