Integrating SOil Biodiversity to Ecosystem Services: testing cost-effectiveness of Soil Biodiversity indicators and the provision of soil biodiversity-based Ecosystem Services to build better land management solutions that effectively implement the EU Soil Strategy

Project Information

SOB4ES

Grant agreement ID: 101112831

DOI

10.3030/101112831

EC signature date 19 May 2023

Start date 1 June 2023

End date 31 May 2028

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 7 527 676,25

EU contribution

€ 7 213 228,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Guidelines for sampling campaigns

Sampling design and protocols for soil and SOB samples

Policy agenda map

Timeline map for relevant research outputs to be disseminated in a useful manner among policymakers and policy actors

Publications

Other (1)

Reliable soil biota monitoring across EU soils

Author(s): Briones, M. J. I., & Miko, L.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17901410

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Air-drying of soil preserves microbial and faunal eDNA abundance and diversity regardless of land-use type or management intensity

Author(s): Xingguo Han, Jessica Cuartero, Verena Koppe, Seraina Nohl, Astrid Sneyders, Karen Vancampenhout, Beat Frey, Aline Frossard
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 215, 2026, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOILBIO.2026.110082

Molecular and morphological identification methods show contrasting trends in soil fauna diversity along land-use intensity gradients

Author(s): Julia Köninger, Lukas Beule, Maria Tsiafouli, Julia Seeber, Helene Blasbichler, Jose Paul Sousa, Pedro Martins da Silva, Jan Frouz, Katarina Hedlund, Alberto Orgiazzi, Maria Jesús Iglesias Briones, Anton Potapov
Published in: Applied Soil Ecology, Issue 216, 2025, ISSN 0929-1393
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.APSOIL.2025.106499