ROMANIA S LEVEL OF READINESS FOR PROMOTING A COHERENT APPROACH TO THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF SOILS

Meine C. & Knight R. L. (eds.), The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and commentaries, University of Wisconsin, 1999;

CEC, Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, COM(2006), 231 final, 2006;

McBratney A., Field D. J. & Koch A., The dimensions of soil security. Geoderma, Vol. 213, pp. 203-213, 2014;

EC, Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, COM (2011) 244 final, 2011;

Lal, R., Soils and ecosystem services, In: Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere, Springer, pp.11-31, 2013;

Vintila R., Munteanu I., Radnea et al., The Geographic Information System of the Soil Resources of Romania “SIGSTAR -200”: Development and main types of applications, Proc . XVII-th National Conference of Soil Science, Romania, 34A, pp. 439-449, 2004 (in Romanian);

Florea N., Balaceanu V., Munteanu I., Asvadurov H., Conea A., Oancea C., Cernescu N. & Popovat M. (co-ordinators), The Soil Map of Romania at th e scale 1:200000, 50 sheets, 1963-1993 & General Legend, 1 sheet - A1 format, 1994, Geological Institute - IGFCOT Bucharest, Romania (in Romanian);

Dumitru M., Manea A., Ciobanu C., Dumitru S., Vrinceanu A., Calciu I., Tanase V., Preda M., Risnoveanu I., Mocanu V., Eftene M. Monitoringul starii de calitate a solurilor din Romania - Soil quality monitoring in Romania, Atlas, Sitech Publisher, Romania, 82p, 55 plates, 2011 (in Romanian and English);

Vintila R., Visan A.N., Balota L.O., Dumitru S. & Eftene C. A., Contribution to the use of freely -available data for the prediction of topsoil properties and generation of INSPIRE-compliant maps at medium spatial resolutions, Proc. SGEM, Informatics, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Bulgaria, Vol. II, pp. 779-786, 2015;

Florea N., Balaceanu V., Rauta C., Canarache A. (co -ordinators), Soil Survey Methodology, ICPA Bucharest: Methods and Reports 20A -20B-20C, 3 volumes, 1986 (in Romanian);

INSPIRE Directive, European Commission (EC), Data Specification on Soil – Technical Guidelines, v 3.0, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2, 2013;

INSPIRE Directive, EC, Data Specification on Coordinate Reference Systems – Technical Guidelines, v 3.2, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2, 2014;

Vlad V., Florea N., T oti M., Raducu D., Munteanu I . et al., Definition of the soil units of the “1:200,000 Soil Map of Romania” using an extended terminology of the World Reference Base System, In: Annals of the University of Craiova – “Agriculture, Mountain Science, and Cadastral Surveying” Series, Vol. XLII (1), pp. 615-639, 2012;

Canarache A., Pedotransfer functions for physical properties estimation of the soil, limiting factors, degradation processes, soil workability and soil trafficability, In: Methods used in soil physics laboratories , Sitech Publ isher, Romania, 2009 (in Romanian);

Keesstra S. D., Quinton J. N., van der Putten W. H., et al., The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Soil, Vol. 2, pp. 111-128, 2016.

Meine C. & Knight R. L. (eds.), The Essential Aldo Leopold: Quotations and commentaries, University of Wisconsin, 1999;

CEC, Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, COM(2006), 231 final, 2006;

McBratney A., Field D. J. & Koch A., The dimensions of soil security. Geoderma, Vol. 213, pp. 203-213, 2014;

EC, Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020, COM (2011) 244 final, 2011;

Lal, R., Soils and ecosystem services, In: Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere, Springer, pp.11-31, 2013;

Vintila R., Munteanu I., Radnea et al., The Geographic Information System of the Soil Resources of Romania “SIGSTAR -200”: Development and main types of applications, Proc . XVII-th National Conference of Soil Science, Romania, 34A, pp. 439-449, 2004 (in Romanian);

Florea N., Balaceanu V., Munteanu I., Asvadurov H., Conea A., Oancea C., Cernescu N. & Popovat M. (co-ordinators), The Soil Map of Romania at th e scale 1:200000, 50 sheets, 1963-1993 & General Legend, 1 sheet - A1 format, 1994, Geological Institute - IGFCOT Bucharest, Romania (in Romanian);

Dumitru M., Manea A., Ciobanu C., Dumitru S., Vrinceanu A., Calciu I., Tanase V., Preda M., Risnoveanu I., Mocanu V., Eftene M. Monitoringul starii de calitate a solurilor din Romania - Soil quality monitoring in Romania, Atlas, Sitech Publisher, Romania, 82p, 55 plates, 2011 (in Romanian and English);

Vintila R., Visan A.N., Balota L.O., Dumitru S. & Eftene C. A., Contribution to the use of freely -available data for the prediction of topsoil properties and generation of INSPIRE-compliant maps at medium spatial resolutions, Proc. SGEM, Informatics, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Bulgaria, Vol. II, pp. 779-786, 2015;

Florea N., Balaceanu V., Rauta C., Canarache A. (co -ordinators), Soil Survey Methodology, ICPA Bucharest: Methods and Reports 20A -20B-20C, 3 volumes, 1986 (in Romanian);

INSPIRE Directive, European Commission (EC), Data Specification on Soil – Technical Guidelines, v 3.0, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2, 2013;

INSPIRE Directive, EC, Data Specification on Coordinate Reference Systems – Technical Guidelines, v 3.2, http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2, 2014;

Vlad V., Florea N., T oti M., Raducu D., Munteanu I . et al., Definition of the soil units of the “1:200,000 Soil Map of Romania” using an extended terminology of the World Reference Base System, In: Annals of the University of Craiova – “Agriculture, Mountain Science, and Cadastral Surveying” Series, Vol. XLII (1), pp. 615-639, 2012;

Canarache A., Pedotransfer functions for physical properties estimation of the soil, limiting factors, degradation processes, soil workability and soil trafficability, In: Methods used in soil physics laboratories , Sitech Publ isher, Romania, 2009 (in Romanian);

Keesstra S. D., Quinton J. N., van der Putten W. H., et al., The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Soil, Vol. 2, pp. 111-128, 2016.