Franciska de Vries1 1Professor of Earth Surface Science, BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, The Netherlands Soil microbial communities play an important role in ecosystem functioning: they perform important steps in soil nutrient...

Isabelle BASILE-DOELSCH1,2*, Nithavong CAM1, Clément LEVARD1, Emmanuel DOELSCH2, Jérôme ROSE1 1Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France; 2CSIRO, Gate 4, Waite Road, Urrbrae SA 5064, Australia; 3CIRAD, UPR Recyclage et risque, F-34398 Montpellier, France Organo-mineral interactions...

Prof. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe1 1University Of California, Merced, Merced, United States Most of the earth’s terrestrial ecosystem is composed of sloping landscapes, where soil organic matter dynamics is partly controlled by the mass movement events that laterally distribute topsoil. Accurate...

Professor Louis Schipper Abstract There is an increasing emphasis on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing this carbon in soil to mitigate against predicted trajectories of climate change. While simple in concept facilitating this transformation requires deep understanding...

Associate Professor Kerrylee Rogers1 1School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong Abstract: The urgent need to mitigate climate change has focussed attention on the extraordinary capacity of coastal and marine ecosystems to sequester and store carbon within...

Abad Chabbi INRA, Ecosys, 78850, Thiverval-Grignon, INRA, URP3F, 86600 Lusignan, France & The 21st century has come with drastic environmental, social and economic changes that need real world solutions. By the middle of this century anthropogenic pressures will have caused...

Lynne Macdonald1 1 CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Locked Bag 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, lynne.macdonald@csiro.au Recycled organic resources have a role to play in supporting soil health and function, food production, and regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Widespread use, however, can...

Ellis Hoffland1, Thom Kuyper1, Rob Comans2, Rachel Creamer1 Wageningen University, The Netherlands 1Soil Biology group 2Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality group Abstract: Soil organic matter serves various functions. Interest in SOM as the source of plant nutrients is ancient....

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner1 1Carl von Linde Senior Fellow at TUM Institute of Advanced Study Abstract: Soil is build of a dynamic and hierarchically organized system of various organic and inorganic constituents and organisms, the spatial structure of...

Assistant Professor Cynthia Kallenbach1 1McGill University, Quebec, in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences Faculty of Agricultural and the Environmental Science Abstract: Soil microbial communities— their structure, biotic and abiotic interactions, and metabolic functions— directly impact both the accumulation and...