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Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives

1 Agrosphere Inst., IBG-3, Inst. of Bio-geosciences
2 Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems, HPSC TerrSys, Geoverbund ABC/J
3 Dep. of Land, Air, and Water Resources, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
4 ELI - Earth and Life Institute [Louvain-La-Neuve]
5 Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics
6 Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Bioengineering Sciences Research Group
7 BEG - Bureau of Economic Geology [Austin]
8 INRES- Inst. of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Soil Science and Soil Ecology
9 The James Hutton Institute
10 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences
11 Dep. of Environmental Physics and Irrigation Inst. of Soils, Water and Environment Sciences A.R.O
12 ECOSYS - Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes
13 Div. of Hydrologic Sciences
14 Dep. of Geology and Soil Science
15 Soil Physics/Vadose Zone Hydrology, Dep. of Crop and Soil Sciences
16 Inst. of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
17 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division of Geography
18 Life and Environmental Science School of Natural Science
19 Inst. of Biological and Environmental Sciences
20 Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
21 Inst. for Environment, Health and Safety
22 EMMAH - Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes
23 Inst. of Agrophysics
24 Computational Science Center
25 Department of Environmental Sciences [Sydney]
26 IWS - Institut für Wasser- und Umweltsystemmodellierung [Universität Stuttgart]
27 Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory
28 Dep. of Agronomy, AFBE Division
29 Inst. of Environmental Physics
30 CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology [Bangor]
31 Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management (IHLW)
32 Department of Environmental Sciences [Riverside]
33 Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
34 Environmental Sciences, Soil Physics and Land Management
35 Netherlands and School of Chemistry
36 Dep. Soil Physics
37 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Earth System Science
38 Inst. for Biodiversity and Ecosystem dynamics
39 Dep. of Hydrology
40 Inst. for Geoscience, Water & Earth System Science (WESS) Competence Cluster
41 Ruakura Research Centre
42 School of Environmental & Rural Science
K. Lamorski
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H. J. Vogel
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Résumé

The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil models has occurred in the last decades, models of soil processes remain disjointed between disciplines or ecosystem services, with considerable uncertainty remaining in the quality of predictions and several challenges that remain yet to be addressed. First, there is a need to improve exchange of knowledge and experience among the different disciplines in soil science and to reach out to other Earth science communities. Second, the community needs to develop a new generation of soil models based on a systemic approach comprising relevant physical, chemical, and biological processes to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of soil processes and their interactions. Overcoming these challenges will facilitate exchanges between soil modeling and climate, plant, and social science modeling communities. It will allow us to contribute to preserve and improve our assessment of ecosystem services and advance our understanding of climate-change feedback mechanisms, among others, thereby facilitating and strengthening communication among scientific disciplines and society. We review the role of modeling soil processes in quantifying key soil processes that shape ecosystem services, with a focus on provisioning and regulating services. We then identify key challenges in modeling soil processes, including the systematic incorporation of heterogeneity and uncertainty, the integration of data and models, and strategies for effective integration of knowledge on physical, chemical, and biological soil processes. We discuss how the soil modeling community could best interface with modern modeling activities in other disciplines, such as climate, ecology, and plant research, and how to weave novel observation and measurement techniques into soil models. We propose the establishment of an international soil modeling consortium to coherently advance soil modeling activities and foster communication with other Earth science disciplines. Such a consortium should promote soil modeling platforms and data repository for model development, calibration and intercomparison essential for addressing contemporary challenges.
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hal-01346397 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Harry Vereecken, A. Schnepf, J. W. Hopmans, M. Javaux, D. Or, et al.. Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives. Vadose Zone Journal, 2016, 15 (5), 57 p. ⟨10.2136/vzj2015.09.0131⟩. ⟨hal-01346397⟩
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