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La naissance du réseau de mesures de la qualité des sols de France

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: In the late 1990's, the soil French soil mapping and monitoring programs tended to lag far behind those of many E.U. member states and other countries in the world. In order to address issues related to soil quality and to take into account the threats to soils, there was an urgent need to establish a consistent and exhaustive mechanism for monitoring the French soils quality. Established in 2001, a public scientific group for soil coordination, called "GIS Sol", gave to INRA the task of designing and then coordinating an entirely new program devoted to soil quality monitoring. Called RMQS in French, this later consists in a 16 to 16-km grid networking the whole country; it is associated to a soil sample archive that constitutes the "memory" of the French soils and supports many scientific and operational programs.

Source: HAL

Authors: Arrouays, D., Thorette, Jacques, Feix, Isabelle, Lesaffre, Benoît, Stengel, Pierre

Institutions: Agence de la transition écologique, French Academy of Agriculture, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

Language: French

Topic: Soil Science and Environmental Management

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4291996567

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