Assessment and quantification of marginal lands for biomass production in Europe using soil-quality indicators

Gerwin, Werner; Repmann, Frank; Galatsidas, Spyridon; Vlachaki, Despoina; Gounaris, Nikos; Baumgarten, Wibke; Volkmann, Christiane; Keramitzis, Dimitrios; Kiourtsis, Fotis; Freese, Dirk

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-267-2018

Articles | Volume 4, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-267-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-267-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 4, issue 4

Original research article

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06 Dec 2018

Original research article |

| 06 Dec 2018

Assessment and quantification of marginal lands for biomass production in Europe using soil-quality indicators

Werner Gerwin, Frank Repmann, Spyridon Galatsidas, Despoina Vlachaki, Nikos Gounaris, Wibke Baumgarten, Christiane Volkmann, Dimitrios Keramitzis, Fotis Kiourtsis, and Dirk Freese

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'comments to the authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee #1', Werner Gerwin, 27 Aug 2018
  - RC2: 'comments on answers from authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Sep 2018
    - AC3: '2nd reply refree #1', Werner Gerwin, 12 Oct 2018
RC3: 'Comments on the manuscript', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Sep 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Werner Gerwin, 12 Oct 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Nov 2018) by Giacomo Certini

AR by Werner Gerwin on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Nov 2018) by Giacomo Certini

ED: Publish as is (24 Nov 2018) by Lily Pereg (deceased) (Executive editor)

AR by Werner Gerwin on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2018)

Short summary

The need for biomass for energetic or material use is increasing parallel to the need to extend the production of food for a growing world population. This results in conflicts between both land use strategies. Use of marginal lands could solve this conflict, however, the understanding of marginal lands and the knowledge of their potentials are still not fully developed. We present an approach to assess land marginality based on soil quality and an estimation of land potentials all over Europe.