Puck bay

Puck bay

Key Facts The Puck Bay area, located in northern Poland along the southern Baltic Sea coast, is used mostly for agriculture (51%), with forests covering 28%, permanent meadows and grasslands 12%, and low-density urban areas 9%. A complex groundwater system consists of...
Nes

Nes

Key Facts Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient for freshwater ecosystems. Loss of phosphorus from agricultural land contributes to downstream eutrophication and degradation of water quality. There is a need to increase the knowledge for soil phosphorus processes, the...
Cartagena – La Unión Mining District

Cartagena – La Unión Mining District

Key Facts The former metal mining district of La Unión-Sierra de Cartagena is located in SE Spain (Cartagena, Murcia Region) and is characterized by a Mediterranean semiarid climate (mean annual temperature ≈17 °C, mean annual precipitation ≈200-300 mm and mean annual...
Wageningen

Wageningen

Key Facts A field experiment has been set up in Spring 2024 at the Unifarm of Wageningen University to study the transport of microplastics within the soil. In the SOILPROM project, the soil depth to which applied microplastics reach, through leaching and colloidal...
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