Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping, Soil functions, soil health
This master’s project aims to map soil management practices and their effects on key soil functions from field scale to national scale. The project will integrate field observations, management data, soil measurements, and geospatial datasets to assess how practices such as tillage, crop rotation, fertilization, and cover cropping influence soil functions including carbon storage, nutrient cycling, water regulation, and biomass production. Spatial analysis and digital soil mapping approaches will be applied to generate high-resolution maps of soil functions and management intensity. The results will improve understanding of management–soil function relationships and support field-level decision-making for sustainable soil management and soil health enhancement.
Is field work part of the topic (yes/no)?
No
Is lab work part of the topic (yes/no)?
No
I coding part of the thesis topic (yes/no)? yes
Yes
1/9 2026 or later
AU Viborg
30 ECTS (IMSOGLO and Agrobiology): Theoretical thesis based on literature studies and/or analysis of issued and edited data sets.
45 ECTS (Agrobiology): Experimental theses in which the student is responsible for collection and analysis of his/her own original data
60 ECTS (Agrobiology): Experimental theses in which the student is responsible for planning, trial design and collection and analysis of his/her own original data
Gomes, L. C., Beucher, A. M., Møller, A. B., Iversen, B. V., Børgesen, C. D., Adetsu, D. V., ... & Greve, M. H. (2023). Soil assessment in Denmark: Towards soil functional mapping and beyond. Frontiers in Soil Science, 3, 1090145.
