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. 2021 May 14;193(Suppl 1):274. doi: 10.1007/s10661-020-08814-0

• Soil-related ecosystem service: Ecosystem service whose supply is directly and quantifiably controlled by soil properties, processes, and functions.

• Soil natural capital: Stocks of mass, energy, and their organisation (entropy) that forms soils (Robinson et al. 2009).

• Soil properties: The physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of a soil, which can be described or measured by field or laboratory observations. Differentiated into “inherent” and “dynamic” (Robinson et al. 2009) / “manageable” (Dominati et al. 2010) properties.

• Soil functions: Subset of the interactions between biophysical structures, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes that underpin the capacity of a soil to support ecosystem service supply (after TEEB 2010).

• Control of erosion rates (CER): ES controlling or preventing soil loss. Mainly provided by vegetation covering the soil.

• Structural impact: Effect on environmental resources when no mitigation is provided, resulting from threats and/or ecosystem processes. Example: soil loss when ES control of erosion rates is provided (Guerra et al. 2014).

• Mitigated impact: Effect on environmental resources when mitigation is provided, resulting from threats and/or ecosystem processes. Example: Remaining soil loss when ES control of erosion rates is provided (Guerra et al. 2014).