{"id":204,"date":"2025-05-13T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:42:11","slug":"about-soils","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/about-soils\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT SOILS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soil \u2013 the very thin skin of our planet. It enables life on earth and is contributing to human well-being. Soils perform essential functions which ensure the provision of various&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=19\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"19\">Ecosystem Services<\/a>. But due to the world\u2019s growing demand for food, global worming, materials and energy as well as unsustainable management strategies, soils are under enormous pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This section provides information about soils in the Alps, Ecosystem Services, which depend on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=13\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"13\">soil functions<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=22\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"22\">soil biodiversity<\/a>, as well as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=25\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"25\">soil threats<\/a>. Furthermore, soil classification issues are discussed and all relevant terms are elucidated in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/?page_id=34\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"34\">soil glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"378\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-13-150252.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205\" style=\"width:461px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-13-150252.png 625w, https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-13-150252-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Posnetek-zaslona-2025-05-13-150252-421x255.png 421w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Representative Alpine Soil Profiles photos. Source: Links4Soils project (Required update: <em>This photo needs to be updated<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soil \u2013 the very thin skin of our planet. It enables life on earth and is contributing to human well-being. Soils perform essential functions which ensure the provision of various&nbsp;Ecosystem Services. But due to the world\u2019s growing demand for food, global worming, materials and energy as well as unsustainable management strategies, soils are under enormous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpinesoils.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}