SERENA EJPSOIL IE MEATH GHG NEP

<p>The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.</p> <p>Data for NEP analysis was provided through the Microsoft Teams shared folder. However, MODIS data was obtained using the MODISTools R package in RStudio (R 4.3.1). Nine MODIS tiles to cover the extent of Ireland were merged and exported to QGIS for analysis.&nbsp;</p> <p>An 8-day NEP analysis was conducted for the entirety of the Republic of Ireland under wheat crop from 02-09 of January. However, wheat production in Ireland is largely centred around several key regions in the east/central-east due to the relative dominance of grassland and alternative agricultural regimes elsewhere. This resulted in quite a sparse visualisation at national scale. Hence, a refined analysis for the same period in County Meath</p>