" Soil science in a changing world": Wageningen conference on applied soil science, 18-22 ...

288 Pages·2011·5.15 MB·English

Wageningen Conference on
Applied Soil Science

‘Soil Science in a Changing World’

Editors:
S.D. Keesstra
G. Mol

18 - 22 September 2011
Wageningen

The Netherlands
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Wageningen Conference on Applied Soil Science
‘Soil Science in a Changing World’
18 - 22 September 2011
Wageningen
The Netherlands

Editors: Saskia Keesstra1 and Gerben Mol2

1 Wageningen University, Land Degradation and Development Group, PO Box 47,
6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
2 Wageningen University and Research Centre, Alterra, PO Box 47,
6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Quotation from or reference to any part of this book should be made with full
reference to the above data

Lay-out: Hedy Wessels, Feike Fliervoet
Cover design: Vormgeverij Mol

ISBN: 978-946173-168-5

Printing: Wageningen UR, Communication Services, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Contents
Sponsors ................................................................................................................... 5
Organising Committee ............................................................................................... 7
Scientific Committee .................................................................................................. 7
Welcome .................................................................................................................... 9
Programme .............................................................................................................. 13
Workshops .............................................................................................................. 29
Abstracts – oral presentations
Theme 1: Global Food Security ................................................................................. 41
Keynote Hans Eenhoorn – The fight against chronic hunger:
a holistic and entrepreneurial approach ................................................................. 43
Keynote Bruce Campbell – Ensuring food security in the face of climate change ......... 49
Session 1.1: Nutrient management for food security ............................................... 55
Session 1.2: Assessing physical, chemical and biological soil
functioning for food security ................................................................................. 63

Theme 2: Water Resources ...................................................................................... 71
Keynote Victor Jetten – Using soils information in natural disaster analysis:
value for money ................................................................................................. 73
Keynote Neil McKenzie – Soil knowledge and the global water challenge .................... 77
Session 2.1: Water use efficiency and water harvesting in dry lands ......................... 81
Session 2.2: Soil as a filter .................................................................................. 89

Theme 3: Biodiversity ............................................................................................. 97
Keynote Diana Wall – Biodiversity is key to sustaining soils ...................................... 99
Keynote Louise Jackson – Nitrogen cycling, soil biota and
agricultural intensification .................................................................................. 103
Session 3.1: Soil assessment, land use and ecosystem services ............................. 109
Session 3.2: Soil-plant-nutrient interactions ......................................................... 117
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Theme 4: Governance and Policy ............................................................................ 125
Keynote Ladislav Miko – Soil protection as a challenge for European policy .............. 127
Keynote Luca Montanarella – On governance and policy related to
sustainable development ................................................................................... 133
Session 4.1: Soil information in support of policy making and
awareness raising ............................................................................................. 137
Session 4.2: Ecosystem services: a useful concept for soil
policy making? ................................................................................................. 145
Theme 5: Climate Change ..................................................................................... 153
Keynote Richard Bardgett – Harnessing plant-soil interactions for the
enhancement of carbon sequestration in soil ........................................................ 155
Keynote Wim van der Putten – Climate change and range expansion ...................... 159
Session 5.1: Carbon stocks and carbon sequestration ........................................... 163
Session 5.2: Tropical peatlands, Andosols, and Biochar ......................................... 171
Abstracts – poster presentations ........................................................................... 179
Theme 1: Global Food Security ............................................................................... 181
Theme 2: Water Resources .................................................................................... 205
Theme 3: Biodiversity ........................................................................................... 227
Theme 4: Governance and Policy ............................................................................ 249
Theme 5: Climate Change ..................................................................................... 261
Author index .......................................................................................................... 279

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Committee
Organising Committee
- Dr. Saskia Keesstra
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Dr. Gerben Mol
Alterra, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
- Dr. Joop Okx
Alterra, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
- Drs. Anne Zaal
Alterra, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

Conference Secretariat
- Hedy Wessels
Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Scientific Committee
- Prof. dr. P. (Peter) de Ruiter (chairman)
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. R.D. Bardgett
University Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Prof. dr. T. Breure
RIVM, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. K. Kalbitz
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. M. Kibblewhite
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
- Prof. dr. R. Lal
Ohio State University, The United States
- Dr. L. Montanarella
European Commission, Italy
- Prof. dr. J. Poesen
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
- Prof. dr. W.H van der Putten
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. K.V. Ragnarsdottir
University Iceland, Iceland
- Prof. dr. S. Rousseva
Poushkarov Inst. for Soil Science, Bulgaria
- Prof. dr. H. Verhoef
Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. T. Scholte
University of Tubingen, Germany
- Prof. dr. S. Thiele-Bruhn
University of Trier, Germany

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Committee
- Prof. dr. D. Wall
Colorado State University, The United States
- Prof. dr. I. Young
University of New England, Australia
- Prof. dr. J. Bouma
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. L. Brussaard
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. W. van Riemsdijk
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Prof. dr. L. Stroosnijder
Wageningen University, The Netherlands

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Welcome
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