Global network of soil laboratories (GLOSOLAN) as international platform for soil data management for sustainable land use

The development of harmonized standards, as well as the search for correction coefficients, ensures an inventory of planetary soil and geographical information accumulated over the historical period. The Global Network of Soil Laboratories (GLOSOLAN), created within the framework of the Global Soil Partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is designed to unite the efforts of the world’s soil laboratories. The main goal of the work of the GLOSOLAN network experts is the harmonization of soil analysis methods in order to coordinate the actions of the world scientific community specialists in improving the efficiency of management and rational use of soils. The staff of the Institute of Biology of the Komi Scientific Research Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar), as a national reference laboratory of Russia, performed the harmonization of the method of measuring the content of soil organic matter (OM), developed and certified a modification of the Tyurin method. The obtained result makes it possible to integrate an array of data accumulated over more than a century on the content of OM in various types of soils in Russia and a number of Eurasian countries into the global soil quality monitoring network database.