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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 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 6 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 7 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 8 Welcome 9
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