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Soil Natural Capital and
Ecosystem Service Delivery in a
WorldofGlobalSoilChange
DAVID A. ROBINSON*
a
, BRIDGET A. EMMETT
a
,
BRIAN REYNOLDS
a
, ED C. ROWE
a
, DAVE SPURGEON
b
,
AIDAN M. KEITH
c
, INMA LEBRON
a
AND
NEAL HOCKLEY
d
a
NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales,
Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2UW, UK;
b
NERC Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, UK;
c
NERC Centre for Ecology &
Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg,
Lancaster, UK;
d
School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography,
Bangor University, Bangor, UK
*E-mail: darearthscience@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Soils provide important functions for society that include not only the
provisioning of food, feed and fibre, but also the regulation of climate
through carbon storage, the recycling of waste, the filtering of water and
nutrient cycling, as well as forming a habitat for genetic diversity. These
ecosystem services are supported by the soil's natural capital stocks and
are important for the functioning of the earth system. Soil must
therefore be managed, not with a single function in mind such as food
production,
but
as
a
multifunctional
resource.
Ecosystem
service
