Concept: soil degradation in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/7857
Preferred label	soil degradation
Definition	Soil may deteriorate either by physical movement of soil particles from a given site or by depletion of the water-soluble elements in the soil which contribute to the nourishment of crop, plants, grasses, trees, and other economically usable vegetation. The physical movement generally is referred to as erosion. Wind, water, glacial ice, animals and tools in use may be agents of erosion.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Alternative label	lurzoruaren andeatze [eu] lurzoruaren narriadura [eu] pogoršanje kvalitete tla [hr]
Has broader	13236 (degradation of the environment) in gemet2/concept
Has narrower	7844 (soil acidification) in gemet2/concept
Is related to	7855 (soil damage) in gemet2/concept
Has related match	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Soil_retrogression_and_degradation
Has exact match	http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7168
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00005324
Source	GILP96 (Dictionary of Environment and sustainable development) in gemet2/source