15th ISCO CONGRESS „Soil and Water Conservation, Climate Change and Environmental Sensitivity” Book of Abstracts 18-23 May 2008 Budapest Geographical Research Insitute Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest Under the auspices of Mr. József Gráf Minister Mininstry of Agriculture and Rural Development SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE • Ádám KERTÉSZ, ISCO President, Geographical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary • Samir A. EL-SWAIFY, ISCO Board of Directors, University of Hawaii, USA; • Jose L. RUBIO, ISCO Board of Directors, Spain, President of ESSC; • Eric ROOSE, Réseau Erosion et GCES, AUF, France; • Mark A. NEARING, ISCO Board of Directors, Purdue University, USA; • Mike GRUNDY, ISCO Board of Directors, Australia; • Bob STEWART, ISCO Board of Directors, USA; • Hans HURNI, ISCO Board of Directors, Switzerland; • He WENYUAN, ISCO Board of Directors, P. R. China; • Robert CASAS, ISCO Board of Directors, Argentina; • Maurice G. COOK, ISCO Board of Directors, USA NC; • Sonia C. F. DECHEN, ISCO Board of Directors, Brazil, IUSS; • Fritz HOLZWARTH, ISCO Board of Directors, Germany; • Ildefonso Pla SENTIS, ISCO Board of Directors, Spain; • Eduardo REINZI, ISCO Board of Directors, Argentina; • David W. SANDERS, ISCO Board of Directors, UK. WASWC; • Max SCHNEPF, ISCO Board of Directors, USA USDA, NRCS; • Samran SOMBATPANIT, ISCO Board of Directors, Thailand, WASWC; • K. G. TEJWANI, Board of Directors, India; • Abderrazak BANNARI, University of Ottawa, Canada. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE • Professor Ádám KERTÉSZ, President – Geographical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (GRI HAS), Budapest • Prof. György VÁRALLYAY – Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RISSAC), Budapest • Prof. Tamás NÉMETH – Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RISSAC), Budapest • Prof. György FÜLEKY – Szent István University, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Gödöllő • Dr. István SISÁK – Pannon University, Department of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Keszthely Edited by Ádám Kertész – György Várallyay – Tamás Németh – György Füleky – István Sisák Published by Geographical Research Insitute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2008. 2 Table of contents Keynote speeches Soil and land management under climate change (Blum, W.E.H.)......................................................16 Disruption of soil functions by land use changes in the Mediterranean (Rubio, J.L.)..........................17 Soil erosion research: do we know what we need to know? (Govers, G.) ...........................................18 Water management under changing climate and land use: Use of simulation modelling (Pla Sentís, I.)..............................................................................................................................19 Soil degradation processes and extreme moisture regime as environmental problems in the Carpathian Basin (Várallyay, Gy.) ..............................................................................................20 Concepts and tools for monitoring and managing desertification in different climates (Imeson, A. – Herrick, J.)............................................................................................................21 Intentions about Soil Conservation Service in the Soil Thematic Strategy of the European Commission (Burghardt, W.) ......................................................................................................22 Contaminated Soil Legislation – Necessary inclusions with examples showing their effectiveness (Berveling, S.)........................................................................................................23 Towards an integrated approach to soil conservation (Fullen, M.A.) ..................................................24 Opportunities and challengers of basic research on soil and water conservation in China (Li, R.).........................................................................................................................................25 Oral presentations Response of runoff and erosion during extreme events to climate change in Mediterranean watersheds (Nunes, J.P.)..............................................................................................................27 Climate change – aridification – changing soil – transforming landscape (Rakonczai, J.) ..................28 Impact of climate change on freeze-thaw function and freeze-thaw erosion in Black Soil Region of Northeast China (Fan, H. – Zhang, R. – Wu, M. – Zhou, L. – Liu, Y.)...................................29 The studying of climate change’s effect on the farmer’s land use option in Farming-grazing Transitional Zone – Taking Ejin Horo Banner in Inner Mongolia of China as a Case (Song, N. – Zhang, F.).................................................................................................................30 Complex geo-ecological responses to climatic changes in an arid area: the case of the northern Negev desert (Yair, A.) ...............................................................................................................31 Barrier functions of soils and sensitivity of environment to pollution (Motuzova, G. – Barsova, N.) ................................................................................................................................32 Monsoonal climate variability and its impact on susceptibility of rainfall to cause erosion (Pal, I. – Al-Tabbaa, A.)..............................................................................................................33 Crop and soil management adaptation to sustain field crop productivity and improve soil water regime under global changing climatic conditions in Lithuania (Feiziene, D. – Feiza, V. – Lazauskas, S. – Kadziene, G. – Simanskaite, D.)........................................................................34 Soil fertility as an indicator of climate-sensitivity of the soils (Makó, A. – Debreczeni, K. – Máté, F. – Szász, G.) ...................................................................................................................35 Isolation, Screening and Characteristics of Hydrogen-oxidizing Bacteria in Soybean Rhizosphere (Wang, W-W. – Chen, X-D. – Xiong, B-T. – Fu, B.) .............................................36 Spatial and temporal pattern of pH and Eh in wetlands (Szalai, Z.).....................................................37 An Integrated Italian Research Project on “Evolution of cropping systems as affected by climate change” (CLIMESCO): first results on spatial and climatic characterization of two agricultural lands (Ventrella, D. – Castrignanò, A. – Sollitto, D. – Fiorentino, C. – Lopez, R.)....................................................................................................................................38 Influence of the change in land use on the soil water properties of Andisols (Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain) (Jiménez, C. – Tejedor, M. – Neris, J. – Fuentes, J.) ............................................39 Use of factor analysis to evaluate soil quality relation to land use change in Azadshar district, North of Iran (Ayoubi, S. – Khormali, F.)...................................................................................40 Soil surface compaction: How land abandonment interacts with fire in a Mediterranean environment (Llovet López, J. – Vallejo Calzada, V.R. – Josa March, R.) .................................41 Land evaluation for agricultural purposes - Bulgarian system Evaluation scales according to winter wheat requirements (Banov, M. – Georgiev, B. – Capra, G.F. – Vacca, S.) .....................42 3 Land use based identification of agricultural factors for improving sustainable land resource management in Northern Thailand – A Case Study in the Chiang Mai Province (Jiang, Y. – Schmidt-Vogt, D. – Schrestha, R.P.) .......................................................................43 ForStreams – Icelandic study on the effects of afforestation and revegetation on streamflow, aquatic ecosystems and water quality (Sigurdsson, B.D.)...........................................................44 Cone penetration resistance in an Oxisol under different land uses in Western São Paulo, Brazil (Paz Ferreiro, J. – Pereira de Almeida, V. – Alves, M.C. – Vidal Vázquez, E.) .........................45 Change of distribution of soil phenolic matter along profiles of soils with different use (Rubino, M. – Coppola, E. – Vacca, S. – Dazzi, C. – Capra, G.F. – Buondonno, A.).................46 Impact of Land Use Change on selected Properties of Mollisols in the Entre Ríos Province, Argentine (Wilson, M.G. – Paz Ferreiro, J. – Tasi, H.A.A. – Vidal Vázquez, E. – de Battista, J.J.)...........................................................................................................................47 Micro-plot scale overland flow generation and soil erosion in two recently burnt eucalypt stands in north-central Portugal: measurement and modeling results for simulated and natural events (Malvar, M.C. – Prats, S.A. – Nunes, J.P. – Keizer, J.J.) ..................................................48 Effect of canopy cover in macro and micro aggregation in a Mediterranean forest soil burned with different fire intensities (Campo, J. – Andreu, V. – Gimeno-García, E. – González-Pelayo, O. – Rubio, 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