DATA4C+ is a thesaurus classifying and defining land management practices in agriculture and forestry for soil carbon storage. DATA4C+ thesaurus is focussed on land management practices identified in the scientific literature as drivers of soil organic carbon (SOC) changes. DATA4C+ thesaurus aim was to fill the gap of lack of a comprehensive thesaurus for land management practices which directly or indirectly affect SOC dynamics. DATA4C+ thesaurus was developped by Cirad, INRAE and IRD during the ANR DATA4C+ project (https://www.data4c-plus-project.fr/en, Projet ANR- 19-DATA-0005).
DATA4C+ thesaurus contains 224 classified and defined terms related to land management practices in agriculture and forestry. DATA4C+ thesaurus is organized as a hierarchical tree reflecting the drivers of SOC storage. To have access to the definition of a given term, the user must click on it in the tree. Then a “pop up” appears with the definition of the term and the source of the definition. A link to the source of the definition (URL or DOI) is given for each term. By clicking on this link, a new web page appears.
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Initial created on
February 24, 2022.
For additional information, contact
Julien Demenois (julien.demenois@cirad.fr) and Data4 C+ Curator (data4c@cirad.fr).
DATA4C+ thesaurus is oriented to be used by scientists in agronomy, forestry and soil sciences with the aim of uniformizing the description of practices influencing SOC in their original research. The generated data will therefore be more easily integrated to perform meta-analysis in particular. Another perspective will be to mobilize the DATA4C+ thesaurus to feed models on SOC dynamics with more site-specific data.
Coverage
global
Methodology and provenance
Created with
PostGresql database
Accrual method
Suggestions of accrual could be sent to data4c@cirad.fr and julien.demenois@cirad.fr
Accrual periodicity
annual
Accrual policy
Accrual could be focused on emerging practices and empirical farmers’ practices, which are poorly studied by researchers. Peer-reviewing of the updated versions of the DATA4C+ thesaurus will be performed by the Scientific and Technical Committee of the 4 per 1000 Initiative.
Community
Audience
scientists in agronomy, forestry and soil sciences
