This website presents the summary statistics of soil properties and carbon and nitrogen contents and stocks for the sampled ICOS sites. These data are also called level II data in the ICOS protocol.

1 Method to compute stock and statistics

This website for level II data includes first a section explaining the methodology for computing the stock and the statistics. We explain here how we compute the stocks using the data collected from the ICOS Sites. We also explain the design based approach which corresponds to the statistical estimators used to compute mean and total, and their associated uncertainty.

2 Report on Soil indicators for the ICOS sites

Here is the list of site reports providing the soil properties statistics and ICOS level-II data ready for downloading. Maps are also provided when the spatial information are available.

Station ID Link to the Report and the data Link to Station description on ICOS website Ecosystem Station class
BE-Lcr Report Lochistri Forest Former ICOS station
BE-Lon Report Lonzee Cropland 2
BE-Vie Report Vielsalm Forest 2
CH-Dav Report Davos Forest 1
CZ-Lnz Report Lanzhot Forest 1
DE-RuS Report Selhausen Forest 1
DE-HoH Report Hohes Holz Forest 1
DK−Sor Report Soroe Forest 1
FI-Hyy Report Hyytiala Forest 1
FR-Fon Report Fontainebleau-Barbeau Forest 1
FR-Gri Report Grignon Cropland 2
FR-Lam Report Lamasquère Cropland 1
IT-Cp2 Report Castelporziano 2 Forest 1
IT-MBo Report Monte Bondone Grassland 2
IT-Ren Report Renon Forest 2
SE−Svb Report Svartberget Forest 2
IT-SR2 Report San Rossore 2 Forest 2

3 ICOS Soil database Dashboard

The following heatmap presents the number of Carbon measurements in the database per ICOS Station and per soil layers (negative values correspond to organic layers).


  1. INRAe InfoETsols, [at]inrae.fr↩︎

  2. INRAe Ecosys, [at]inrae.fr↩︎

  3. University of Tuscia, [at]unitus.it↩︎

  4. INRAe ISPA Bordeaux↩︎