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.

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Success Stories - Data reuse

Cenk Dönmez

Cenk Dönmez - ORCID

Data reuse in GIS

Long Term Experiment (LTE=>20a) metadata set, downloaded through the BonaRes Repository with DOI
Quantifying anticipated spatially differentiated changes in agroclimatic conditions
Comparing a baseline period (1971–2000) with future timeframes (2021–2100) in line with the IPCC's Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP)
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

Marcus Schmidt - ORCID

Data Synthesis in the SIGNAL project

The SIGNAL project worked on common plots and coordinated data collection from the start.
This paid out by data that could be combined to see overall ecosystem patterns.
Data quality and openness contributed to highranking publication.

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Data of the month (DOM)

Field traffic GPS records, campaign silage maize 2015/2016, Project SOILAssist

Katja Augustin & Joachim Brunotte

In the course of the SOILAssist project, RTK GPS recordings of field cultivation driving activities are continuously performed. The dataset contains the records of the silage corn campaign 2015/2016 of the agricultural test field 1 in Adenstedt (Hildesheim district, Lower Saxony, Germany).

SoilAssist

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Looking for long-term experiments (LTE) ?

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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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Selected published LTE datasets

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"Long-term field experiment V140 Muencheberg (launched in 1963)"

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"Long-Term Fertilization Trial Dikopshof "

Selected publications

Donmez C., Sahingoz M., Paul C., Cilek A., Hoffmann C., Berberoglu S., Webber H., Helming K. (2024). Climate change causes spatial shifts in the productivity of agricultural long-term field experiments. European Journal of Agronomy, 155(), 127121. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2024.127121

Blanchy G., D'Hose T., Donmez C., Hoffmann C., Makoschitz L., Murugan R., O'Sullivan L., Sandén T., Spiegel H., Svoboda N., Zechmeister‐Boltenstern S., Klumpp K. (2024). An open‐source metadataset of running European mid‐ and long‐term agricultural field experiments. Soil Use and Management, 40(1), . doi:10.1111/sum.12978

Donmez, C., Blanchy, G., Svoboda, N., D'Hose, T., Hoffmann, C., Hierold, W., Klumpp, K. (2022). Provision of metadata of european agricultural long-term experiments through BonaRes and EJP SOIL collaboration. Data in Brief, 42(Article 108226), .

Grosse, M., Heinrich, U., Hierold, W. (2019). Fact Sheet for the Description of Long-Term Field Experiments / Steckbrief zur Beschreibung von Dauerfeldversuchen Text. BonaRes Series, (), . doi:https://doi.org/10.20387/bonares-r56g-fgrw

Grosse, M., Hierold, W. (2019, 21. May). Long-term Field Experiments in Germany. Dataset published via Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research . Abgerufen am , von https://maps.bonares.de/mapapps/resources/apps/bonares/index.html?lang=en&mid=68ae28c6-c8ae-475f-9b84-d7d11ef5891d

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Soil profiles

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BonaRes Soil Profile Database

We offer easy and standardized access to uniformly structured and stored soil profile data for research. You can search for existing soil profiles or enter new ones with associated laboratory analyzes into the BonaRes Repository and publish them.

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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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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.

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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.

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Materials

Publications

Atemkeng, M. F., Svoboda, N., Hoffmann, C., Specka, X., Tula, A. (2023.0). 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. (2023.0). Long-Term Field Experiments: Lift the Agricultural Data Treasure. BonaRes Series, (), . doi:10.20387/bonares-7ss0-zm41