The impact of soil erosion on soil-related ecosystem services: development and testing a scenario-based assessment approach
Creators: name: Steinhoff-Knopp, Bastian
name: Kuhn, Tinka K.
name: Burkhard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: CICES
subject: Control of erosion rates
subject: Landscape
subject: Soil natural capital
subject: Soil retention
subject: Water erosion
subject: Agricultural robots
subject: Agronomy
subject: Crops
subject: Ecosystems
subject: Erosion
subject: Extrapolation
subject: Flow of water
subject: Hydraulics
subject: Soil testing
subject: Soils
subject: Water
subject: Water filtration
subject: Agricultural landscapes
subject: Assessment approaches
subject: Development and testing
subject: Ecosystem services
subject: Long-term effects
subject: Soil erosion rate
subject: Spatially explicit
subject: Sustainable soil management
subject: Soil conservation
subject: agricultural land
subject: assessment method
subject: ecosystem service
subject: erosion rate
subject: natural capital
subject: retention
subject: soil erosion
subject: water erosion
subject: alkalinity
subject: Article
subject: barley
subject: bulk density
subject: climate
subject: controlled study
subject: crop production
subject: drought
subject: environmental impact
subject: environmental impact assessment
subject: environmental monitoring
subject: evapotranspiration
subject: Germany
subject: growing season
subject: harvest
subject: harvesting
subject: leaching
subject: nonhuman
subject: precipitation
subject: runoff
subject: soil acidity
subject: soil degradation
subject: soil management
subject: soil quality
subject: soil texture
subject: tillage
subject: vegetation
subject: water contamination
subject: water filtration
subject: water flow
subject: water quality
subject: water supply
subject: ecosystem
subject: environmental protection
subject: soil
subject: Conservation of Natural Resources
subject: Ecosystem
subject: Environmental Monitoring
subject: Soil Erosion
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: The ecosystem service (ES) approach usually addresses soil erosion as the regulating service control of erosion rates or soil retention. In addition to the assessment of this regulating ES, mitigated impacts on soil-related ES by preventing soil erosion can be assessed. This study presents a scenario-based approach for the assessment of the impact of soil erosion on soil-related ES. The assessment approach was tested in agricultural landscapes in Northern Germany, combining mapping and assessment of soil-related ES. In six scenarios, the degradation of soils due to soil erosion was simulated by the calculation of soil profile reductions. The scenarios represent two levels of impact with three time steps (+50, +100, +150 years). In the scenarios for the structural impact, the potential soil erosion rates were extrapolated into the future to generate spatially explicit information on degraded soils. In the scenarios for the mitigated impact, the actual soil erosion rates were extrapolated. Four soil-related ES were assessed for the initial state and the scenarios crop provision, water filtration, water flow regulation and fresh water provision. The comparison of the potential service supply of the four soil-related ES in the scenarios enabled the assessment of the long-term effect of the ES control of erosion rates. The mitigated reduction in the potential service supply for three of the considered ES (crop provision, water filtration, water flow regulation) is large and highlights the importance of sustainable soil management. Contrary to this, the ES fresh water provision benefits of erosion-induced soil profile reductions. © 2021, The Author(s).