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.

* O and M denote organic and mineral layers, respectively.
Station ID Link to the Report and the data Link to Station description on ICOS website Ecosystem Station class Sampling year
BE-Bra Report Brasschaat Forest 1 2021
BE-Lcr Report Lochistri Forest Former ICOS station 2017
BE-Lon Report Lonzee Cropland 2 2017
BE-Vie Report Vielsalm Forest 2 2018
CH-Dav Report Davos Forest 1 2018
CZ-Lnz Report Lanzhot Forest 1 2019
DE-RuS Report Selhausen Forest 1 2018
DE-HoH Report Hohes Holz Forest 1 2017
DK−Sor Report Soroe Forest 1 2021
FI-Hyy Report Hyytiala Forest 1 2018
FR-Fon Report Fontainebleau-Barbeau Forest 1

2020 (O)

2021 (M)

FR-Gri Report Grignon Cropland 2 2018
FR-Lam Report Lamasquère Cropland 1 2020
IT-Cp2 Report Castelporziano 2 Forest 1 2020
IT-MBo Report Monte Bondone Grassland 2 2017
IT-Ren Report Renon Forest 2 2020
SE−Svb Report Svartberget Forest 2 2022 (O) 2021 (M)
IT-SR2 Report San Rossore 2 Forest 2 2021

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↩︎