Stockholm university

Research project Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils (HoliSoils)

Forest management can contribute to climate mitigation, but we still do not know how forest soils respond to management and disturbances. This project will address this question by synthesizing knowledge on soils across European forests.

Soil_wide

HoliSoils will provide an improved, integrated, and harmonised monitoring and modelling framework for forest soils across Europe. The project will identify and test soil management practices aiming to mitigate climate change and sustain provision of various ecosystem services essential for human livelihoods and wellbeing. Through a collaborative, multi-actor approach, the multidisciplinary consortium brings leading expertise on soil analysis and databases, development of advanced analytical techniques, complex system modelling, digital soil mapping, soil ecology, disturbance ecology, forest and greenhouse gas inventories, social sciences, and communications.

Project members

Project managers

Raisa Mäkipää

LUKE, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Members

Stefano Manzoni

Universitetslektor, docent

Department of Physical Geography
Stefano Manzoni

Jorge Curiel

Basque Centre for Climate Change

Sebastiaan Luyssaert

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE / VU AMSTERDAM

Aleksi Lehtonen

LUKE, Natural Resources Inssitute Finland

Bertrand Guenet

Microbial Ecology; Biogeochemistry; Modelling; Soil Sciences; Carbon and Nitrogen cycles

Petr Baldrian

Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology

Raisa Mäkipää

LUKE, Natural Resources Institute Finland