Soil organic carbon plays a major role in the global carbon budget, and can act as a source or a sink of atmospheric carbon, thereby possibly influencing the course of climate change. Changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are now taken into account in international negotiations regarding climate change. Consequently, developing sampling schemes and models for estimating the spatial distri...

Within the new “European Green Deal”, European Commission defined crucial challenges for agriculture of future decades, such as making food production more sustainable by considering local pedo-climatic and socio-economic specificities [...]