Soil Erosion 2012 (IMAGE)

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Soil Erosion 2012

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The spatial pattern of soil erosion in 2012. Areas classified as having very low, and low erosion rates represent almost 85 percent of the study area. About 7.5 million km2 in total (6.1 percent of the land), exceeds the generic tolerable soil erosion threshold

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European Union, University of Basel

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