About Soil BON
Soil BON is a global soil monitoring project for the anthropocene.
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The Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (SoilBON) is a global partnership that is working with the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI), the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN), and other global and regional partners to make available the soil biological and ecosystem observations needed to ensure living soil resources are sustainably conserved and managed and can support essential human needs. We do this by focusing on expanding the existing Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) to target specifically soil ecological features.
SoilBON partners represent a range of stakeholders, including researchers, educators, and policy advisors from academic, governmental, and private sectors. The goal is to further connect multinational partners and initiatives in a worldwide effort to understand soil biodiversity, document how it is changing, how these changes affect people who rely on soil living resources for their well-being and livelihoods, and how a sustainable use of ecosystems can safeguard soil biodiversity.
SoilBON aims to support the development of a global community for the observation, understanding, and prediction of soil biodiversity, being a forum to network groups to advance methods for observing soil biodiversity including integration of information across spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales.
Soil BON soil contributor locations from 2022 campaigns include sites in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South-Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, and Zimbabwe.