Stephan Mantel

Stephan Mantel is a researcher at ISRIC - World Soil Information, affiliated with Wageningen University. His work focuses on soil science, particularly soil formation, climate change impacts, and multifunctional urban soil applications.

• Research highlights: World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB), agricultural land management, biomass production, and soil-climate interactions.
• Active collaborations: Soil resource mapping, climate zone analysis, and policy-driven soil utilization.

His 74 research outputs include 39 peer-reviewed articles, with recent contributions on urban soil systems (2024), soil-climate factors (2023), and lowland agricultural soils (2022). Article trends emphasize soil classification, sustainable land use, and pedogenetic processes under environmental stressors.

Media contributions: Expert commentary on soil-related public health risks (2022) and virtual soil museum outreach (2017).