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🌱 Last week we celebrated #WorldSoilDay 2025, but our work does not stop!

#Soils are the hidden foundations that sustain life across ecosystems, from #cities to #forests!

Explore #HoliSoils' key messages to discover what the project has learned about #ForestSoils 👇
holisoils.eu/resources/ke...

Celebrate #WorldSoilDay 2025 with us!

#HealthySoils are the backbone of ecosystems in cities, and also in #forests: #soils store carbon, regulate water, sustain #biodiversity, and provide many other key #EcosystemServices 🌱

Find out more on the work HoliSoils project is doing on #ForestSoils 👇

Celebrate the importance of soils, from forests to cities - HoliSoils The wellbeing of our planet, its ecosystems, and its people is deeply connected to soils. In the HoliSoils project we are very familiar with how forests,

Today is #WorldSoilDay 🌱🥳

In #HoliSoils, we work on how, when sustainably managed, #ForestSoils:

🔹 Enable the growth of #trees🌳
🔹 Supply clean #water 💧
🔹 Preserve #biodiversity 🐞
🔹 Help fight #ClimateChange 🌡️
& more!

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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Long-term nitrogen fertilisation enhances tree growth and soil carbon retention in boreal forests - HoliSoils Don’t miss the HoliSoils webinar on 5 December (14:00–15:00 CET) on long-term nitrogen fertilisation, forest productivity, and soil carbon retention in boreal ecosystems.

Join us on Friday, 5 December, for a #HoliSoils webinar with @luke.fi experts!

Anni Palvi presents long-term Scots pine growth data & Boris Tupek explains how nitrogen fertilisation shapes soil carbon and microbial communities.

Sign up now: holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

#ForestSoils #Horizon2020

HoliSoils Webinar Series - Introductory lecture on forest soils, monitoring and mapping - HoliSoils Don’t miss the HoliSoils webinar on 22 October (14:00–15:00 CEST) on monitoring forest soil biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and microbial responses to management.

#ForestSoils are more than dirt beneath our feet: they regulate water, store carbon, & support #biodiversity 🌱

On 18 November, the #HoliSoils Webinar Series continues with a session dedicated to understanding & mapping forest soils across Europe!

Sign up now ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

#HoliSoils was featured in the latest edition of the @efimedfacility.bsky.social Newsletter, highlighting our field workshops on how climate & forest management shape Mediterranean #ForestSoils 💚🌱🌲

Discover insights from HoliSoils & other exciting initiatives featured 👉 mailchi.mp/efi/efi-netw...

🧠 Curious about #ForestSoils and their role in #ClimateResilience?

Save the date for the next session of the #HoliSoils Webinar Series for an introductory lecture on forest soils, monitoring, & mapping across Europe!

📅 18 November | 14:00–15:00 CET

Find out more ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

How do we support forest soils to foster a climate-smart future? - HoliSoils Forest soils can make a significant contribution in mitigating climate change. Not only do they store carbon and consume methane, with the right management

🌱 How do we support forest soils to foster a climate-smart future?

At the final #HoliSoils Policy Forum held in Brussels on 10 October, experts, policymakers, & stakeholders came together to explore how #ForestSoils can play a pivotal role in Europe’s climate strategy 👇
holisoils.eu/how-do-we-su...

Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | Effect of Different Tree Plantations on the Chemical Properties and Microbial Activity in Galician Forests Soils Forest soils are crucial carbon sinks, with the soil microbial community playing a key role in the stabilization of organic matter and harboring numerous eco...

Novo artigo en: Spanish Journal of Soil Science
A investigadora Montserrat Díaz Raviña do grupo #BCS da @mbgcsic.bsky.social é coautora do estudio "Effect of Different Tree Plantations on the Chemical Properties and Microbial Activity in Galician Forests Soils"
#Forestsoils

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Mixed forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight - HoliSoils A 24-year field experiment in Slovakia finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable to drought, pest outbreaks and soil carbon losses than

If you are interested in these findings and would like to dive deeper into the key #research results & their implications for forest policy and management, this visual story is a must-read! Don't miss it out! #ForestResilience #MixedForests #ForestSoils
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Nitrogen fertilisation boosts soil carbon storage in Scots pine forests - HoliSoils Forests play a vital role in global carbon storage, with most of this carbon held belowground. New HoliSoils research by the Natural Research Institute

🌲🌱💚 Can nitrogen fertilisation help fight #ClimateChange?

A new #HoliSoils study led by @luke.fi explores how nitrogen fertilisation of #ForestSoils can enhance #soil organic carbon pools, offering a promising strategy for climate change #mitigation!

Find out more ⬇️
holisoils.eu/nitrogen-fer...

#ForestSoils sustain the life & #biodiversity of our #forests & also contribute #ClimateChange mitigation!

But microplastics are now found even in forests & their #soils ⚠️

Explore @unep.org's #WorldEnvironmentDay website to discover how we can #BeatPlasticPollution ➡️ www.worldenvironmentday.global

Soil benefits - HoliSoils Forest soils are teeming with life and biodiversity. They enable the growth of trees, berry plants and mushrooms that are essential to human consumption and economy

#ForestDay 2025 celebrates forests & food 🌲🍄🌿

#ForestSoils are teeming with life and #biodiversity and play a key role in enabling the growth of trees, berry, plants, and mushrooms that are essential to human consumption and economy!

Find out more ➡️ holisoils.eu/soil-benefits/

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Today is #IntlForestDay!

Let’s take the occasion to celebrate these ecosystems and the ground where they grow since there would be no #forest without the #soil beneath the trees 🌳🌱

Learn more about #ForestSoils and the work #HoliSoils is making for them on our website ➡️ holisoils.eu

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Policy Briefs - HoliSoils In this section HoliSoils provides interested parties with different models and research tools to help both stakeholders and scientists understand environmental and anthropogenic effects and impacts o...

📑 The project’s Policy Brief explores how #ForestSoils can increase #ClimateChange mitigation with targeted management in 13 languages ➡️ holisoils.eu/policy-briefs/

📚 #HoliSoils’ publications gather all the innovative insights developed within the project ➡️ holisoils.eu/project-publ...

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#ForestDay 2025 is just a few days away!

🌲💡✨In 2024, the main theme of the celebration was #ForestInnovation! Let’s get ready for #IntlForestDay by recapping all the many #innovations related to #ForestSoils collected and produced by #HoliSoils 🔎

See some of them in this thread! ⬇️
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On 21 March we will celebrate #IntlForestDay 🌲✨

#ForestSoils are key in sustaining our #forests in many ways, including hosting #biodiversity!

Get ready for #ForestDay 2025 by exploring all that #soils and their inhabitants do for us and our forests ➡️ holisoils.eu/soil-benefits/

In just one month we will celebrate #IntlForestDay 🌲✨

#Forests provide us with tangible & intangible goods, while mitigating #ClimateChange 🌿🌡️

Yet without #soil there are no forests!

🌱📩 Subscribe to the #HoliSoils’ newsletter to learn more about #ForestSoils ahead of #ForestDay ➡️ bit.ly/3KDCbLw

Review on greenhouse gas reporting in European forest soils - HoliSoils In the framework of the HoliSoils project, the Thuenen Institute is working on the soil monitoring framework. In particular, their work focuses on reviewing

The @Thuenen_aktuell is involved in the #soil monitoring framework of the #HoliSoils project 🔎🌱🪱

Read this poster by @VonZimtstern and Nicole Wellbrock and discover more on GHG reporting in #ForestSoils 👇

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Holisoils - European Forest Soils - HoliSoils Holistic management practices, modelling & monitoring for European Forest Soils. Knowledge gaps on forest soil processes and the lack of harmonised soil monitoring limits our ability to maintain soil-related ecosystem services and achieve climate policy objectives.

#Soils are crucial reservoirs of #biodiversity and provide essential #EcosystemServices 🌱🪱

Watch this video to find out 6 actions we can take to protect #soil and have a look at #HoliSoils website to discover more on #ForestSoils 👉

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