Research Data
BonaRes Repository for Soil and Agricultural Research Data
The BonaRes Repository makes your data visible to the world. It is a free infrastructure for researchers and the community to publish and find data related to soil, agriculture and ecology from Germany and the world. In our repository you can publish your data and receive a unique digital object identifier (DOI). We offer several additional services such as our long-term field experiment map, our soil profile data base, community engagement and soil data related materials.
Publish data
Make your dataset findable, accessible and reusable with an unique DOI - Make it FAIR!
Success Stories - Data reuse
Cenk Dönmez - ORCID
Data reuse in GIS
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Long Term Experiment (LTE=>20a) metadata set, downloaded through the BonaRes Repository with DOI
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Quantifying anticipated spatially differentiated changes in agroclimatic conditions
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Comparing a baseline period (1971–2000) with future timeframes (2021–2100) in line with the IPCC's Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP)
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Facilitating future soil and crop modeling studies using LTE data and providing essential data for planning new LTE sites.
Marcus Schmidt in a blooming agroforestry system - ORCID
Data Synthesis in the SIGNAL project
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The SIGNAL project worked on common plots and coordinated data collection from the start.
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This paid out by data that could be combined to see overall ecosystem patterns.
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Data quality and openness contributed to highranking publication.
Find data
The BonaRes Repository
Our BonaRes Repository offers a variety of data on soil, agriculture and ecology. Agricultural and soil research data often have geospatial information and are therefore visible and findable at maps.
Data of the month
agroforestry
Marcus SchmidtPrevious Data of the month
Long-term field experiment V140 Muencheberg from (launched in 1963).
Dietmar Barkusky (ZALF)
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Grain legume production data for soybean, lupins and faba bean, the effect of cultivars and irrigation and impacts on the following winter wheat (data collection)
Moritz Reckling, Kathleen Karges, Gunhild Rosner (ZALF)
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M.RicklingGrowth parameters, nutrient status and colonization density of beneficial microbes in winter rye grown organically and conventionally.
Jan Helge Behr (DiControl)
dicontrol dataset
J.H.BehrTree species composition of a landscape in north-eastern Germany in 1780, 1890 and 2010.
Monika Wulf, Ute Jahn, Kristin Meier, Mareike Radtke (ZALF)
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ZALFBonaRes SIGNAL biomass production starting in 2016.
Marcus Schmidt (SIGNAL)
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Provision of Metadata of European Agricultural Long-Term Experiments through BonaRes and EJP SOIL Collaboration.
Cenk Dönmez (ZALF)
13 05 2022 bonares und ejp soil kooperation
Long-term experiments
With environmental conditions changing year by year and management effects taking time to show up, field trials over many years or even decades are invalable in understanding the dynamics in soils. Visit our map and database on where such research is done across Europe and where to find more information.
Looking for long-term experiments?
We have collected information about 532 LTE in Europe and Germany together with partners from EJP SOIL. This information has been compiled in a dynmic online map.
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Published LTE datasets
How to be part of the map?
Each long-term field experiment is unique. If you are interested in publishing such data or information (metadata) about your experiment, please contact us for custom solution.
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Ask Cenk Dönmez
Email: cenk.doenmez@zalf.de
Phone: +49 33432 82-402
Soil profiles
We offer easy and standardized access to uniformly structured and stored soil profile data for research. Here you can search for existing soil profiles or enter new ones with associated laboratory analyzes into the BonaRes Repository and publish them. Published soil profiles receive a DOI individually or as a collection, and are therefore accessible, reusable and citable for other scientists.
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Photo: Gerhard MilbertBonaRes Soil Profile Database
We have developed an online service to facilitate provision and resuse of soil profiles collected, for example, in scientific projects.
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Ask our support
Email: support-data@bonares.de
Publish data into the BonaRes Repository
Share research data
When you are looking to publish research data, the BonaRes Repository is a great place to start. Contact us or upload your data directly.
Share soil profiles
Soil profile data often has a clear structure, calling for a specific format to be published in. Share your profiles with the world while receiving credit by getting a DOI for each of your profiles.
Share LTE data
Become part of our Long-term field experiment map by sharing metadata and/or data about your experiment with us. This also enables others to get to know your experiment and link to your project.
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Abraham Tula
Email: support-data@bonares.de
Phone: +49 33432 82-180
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Maureen Atemkeng
Email: support-data@bonares.de
Phone: +49 33432 82-4091
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Cenk Dönmez
Email: cenk.doenmez@zalf.de
Phone: +49 33432 82-402
Engage - Become part of our community!
Soil is just as divers as the community studying it. That’s because soil touches so many research areas, for example microbiology, hydrology, climatology & ecology. All these scientific fields produce data related to soils - and this data is required for further studies, meta-analyses, models or political recommendations.
Agredit - AGROVOC Review & Discussion Tool
The AGROVOC is a collection of agricultural terms and definitions in multiple languages, aimed to standardize searching and indexing of agricultural terms. We developed the Agredit tool as a place for user-driven improvement of the AGROVOC. You can use it to idenfiy and discuss keywords and share your expertise.
Materials
Publications
Atemkeng, M. F., Svoboda, N., Hoffmann, C., Specka, X., Tula, A. (2023). Let´s Be FAIR with DATA. Zenodo, (), . doi:10.5281/zenodo.7503081
Donmez, C., Hoffmann, C., Svoboda, N., Atemkeng, M., Ostler, R., Kersebaum, K. C., D’Hose, T., Specka, X., Hierold, W., Helming, K. (2023). Long-Term Field Experiments: Lift the Agricultural Data Treasure. BonaRes Series, (), . doi:10.20387/bonares-7ss0-zm41
Dönmez et al. (2022) "Provision of metadata of european agricultural long-term experiments through BonaRes and EJP SOIL collaboration". Data in Brief 42. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108226