Soil Responses to Climate Change

Plenary papers.- Soils and global change: an overview.- Relevance of understanding landscape evolution in relation to climate-induced soil behaviour.- Climate change, desertification and the Mediterranean region.- Climate change, soil salinity and alkalinity.- Spatial modelling approaches to evaluate the effects of climate change on future crop potential and land management.- Crop models: principles and adaptations to the problem of climate change.- The effects of climate change on irrigated soils: water resources and solute leaching.- Modelling the effects of climate change on the hydrology and water quality of structured soils.- The potential impact of global environmental change on nitrogen dynamics in arable systems.- Climate change and soil microbial processes: secondary effects are hypothesised from better known interacting primary effects.- Old sediment carbon in global budgets.- Poster papers.- Global climate change and the necessity to 'scale-down.- The agricultural management effects on carbon sequestration in eastern Canada.- Demonstration of the Rothamsted carbon model.- An expert evaluation system to assess agricultural soil erosion vulnerability.- MicroLEIS 3. 2: a set of computer programs, statistical models and expert systems for land evaluation.- Modelling soil erosion on UK agricultural land under a changed climate.- The development of pedotransfer functions for the hydraulic properties of Portuguese soils.- The use of EPIC in a statistical framework for regional analysis of soil responses to climate and management.- Effect of climatic changes (CO2, temperature) on grassland ecosystems: first five months' experimental results.- Significance of two soil components of the pedosphere as carbon sinks.- The role of site characteristics, species and soilhorizon on the evaluation of carbon contents of forest soils.- Statistical study of soil respiration: calculation of present day rates and anticipation for a double CO2 world.- Demonstration of SUNDIAL: