Bottom of the year

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The Soil of the Year was first presented for 2005 on the occasion of the annual World Soil Day on December 5, 2004. The campaign aims to convey the importance of soil for people and its worthy of protection ; it takes place in Germany , Austria and Switzerland .

Goal setting

Soils are threatened in their functionality worldwide by human activity . However, in contrast to species , air and water protection , soils are hardly considered in politics, public opinion and nature conservation. Soil damage such as acidification , erosion or sealing occurs in Central Europe as well as in other parts of the world. And this damage is particularly serious because, in contrast to air and water pollution, which can be reversed relatively quickly via cleaning systems, most soil damage is difficult to reverse or even irreversible. In Germany alone, almost 80 hectares of soil are sealed every day (2011). That corresponds to the area of ​​110 soccer fields. In addition, in this country, largely unnoticed by the public, 50% of the arable land is at risk of erosion.

On the one hand, the lack of interest may be due to the fact that soil damage is mostly insidious and inconspicuous. Processes that only bring about visible changes over decades do not attract the public's attention. On the other hand, there is a lack of knowledge. Floors as such are hardly considered in schools and the media. According to the principle “you only protect what you know”, attempts have been made for a number of years to make the importance and endangerment of soils more popular. The “Soil of the Year” campaign with information on the respective soils has been carried out since 2005 for this purpose.

organization

The campaign was initiated by the German Soil Science Society (DBG) and the Federal Soil Association (BVB). At the end of 2007, the Austrian Soil Science Society (ÖBG) joined the sponsoring group. The campaign is supported by the Federal Environment Agency , among others . Soil of the Year is selected by the Soil of the Year Board of Trustees , whose spokesperson Monika Frielinghaus from the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg is. Since 2011 a “Soil of the Year” campaign has been carried out by the Soil Science Society of Switzerland (BGS / SSP), albeit independently of the German and Austrian Soil Science Society.

The soils of the year are presented to the public in specialist magazines and in a flyer, which contains information about the formation, properties, distribution and hazards of the respective soil type . In addition to the flyers about the respective soil of the year, there is also a general flyer in which the “Soil of the Year” campaign is presented and which summarizes things worth knowing about soils in a brief and easy-to-understand way.

Previous soils of the year

year German name Designation according to WRB
2005 Black earth Chernozem or Phaeozem
2006 Pale earth Albeluvisol or Albic Luvisol
2007 Podzol Podzol
2008 Brown earth Cambisol or Brunic Arenosol
2009 Kalkmarsch Fluvisol or Gleysol
2010 City floors Technosols
2011 Vega Fluvic Cambisol
2012 Fen Rheic Histosol
2013 Plaggenesch Plaggic Anthrosol
2014 Vineyard soils
2015 Backwater bottom Planosol or Stagnosol
2016 Groundwater floor Gleysol
2017 Garden soil Hortic Anthrosol
2018 Alpine humus soil Folic Histosol or Suprafolic Leptosol
2019 Tilt floor Regosol
2020 watt Gleysol with Tidalic Qualifier

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text of the Federal Environment Agency on soil sealing
  2. ^ Text of the Federal Environment Agency on soil erosion
  3. ^ First call to the soil of the year 2005 (PDF) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. oebg.boku.ac.at
  5. 2005 - Black Earth
  6. 2006 - Pale Earth
  7. 2007 - Podzol
  8. 2008 - Brown Earth
  9. 2009 - Kalkmarsch
  10. 2010 - city floors
  11. 2011 - Brauner Auenboden
  12. 2012 - Niedermoor
  13. Britta Fecke, in conversation with Frank Glante from the Federal Environment Agency: “We have to step up our activities” . In: dradio.de , December 5, 2012
  14. The Plaggenesch - Soil of the Year 2013 , BGR, 2013
  15. 2013 - Plaggenesch
  16. ^ Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft (DBG): Soil of the year 2014 - vineyard soils (profile) . ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: dbges.de , July 24, 2014
  17. 2014 - vineyard soil
  18. Flyer on the floor of the year 2015
  19. 2015 - Backwater bottom
  20. 2016 - Groundwater bottom
  21. ^ Soil of the Year Board of Trustees: Soil of the Year 2017 - Garden Soil , accessed on December 5, 2016.
  22. Garden soil - soil of the year 2017
  23. ^ Kuratorium Boden des Jahres: [1] , accessed on December 5, 2017
  24. ^ Kuratorium Boden des Jahres: [2] , accessed on December 5, 2018
  25. Ecologically valuable: Watt is “Soil of the Year” at ndr.de from December 4, 2019