This chapter summarizes the methods, results, and conclusions of a 5-year research project
(SoilTrEC: Soil Transformations in European Catchments) on experimentation, process
modeling, and computational simulation of soil functions and soil threats across a network of
European, Chinese, and United States Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs). The study
focused on the soil functions of biomass production, carbon storage, water storage and
transmission, water filtration, transformation of nutrients, and maintaining habitat and genetic …