Throughout the past decade, the topic of ecosystem services (ES) has become extremely popular in research, resulting in a huge variety of definitions and terms.

The soil map of the Austrian Soil Cartography - promoted by the Federal research and training center for Forest, Natural Hazards and Landscape, presents the soil conditions of Austria's agricultural land i

Upper Austria was the first federal province to produce "soil function maps" based on data from the electronic soil map (eBOD). These maps make the performance of soils visible over a wide area.