13:00 - 14:00 CEST
PRIVATE SECTOR ACTIONS ON SOIL BIODIVERSITY/SOIL HEALTH
- Towards living soils - Mr Philippe Schaus, Moët Hennessy
Sustainable eco-friendly fertilizers for conservation of soil diversity - Mr Alexander Sharabaika, Phosagro
Project ACORN: Stimulating smallholder agroforestry at scale - Ms Martine Jansen, RABOBANK
Synecoculture and human augmentation of ecosystems: project overview - Mr Masatoshi Funabashi, Sony CSL
THEME 1: STATE OF KNOWLEDGE ON SOIL BIODIVERSITY
Parallel session 1 | Click on the Room link - Passcode GSOBI-PS1
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Soil bioanalysis: a simple and effective tool to access and interpret soil health - Ms Iêda de Carvalho Mendes, EMBRAPA Cerrados, Brazil
- Uncovering linkages between soil fauna and ecosystem function using factor analysis and structural equation modelling - Ms Ashley B. Jernigan, Cornell AgriTech, USA
- Monitoring soil biological quality in the Veneto region - Ms Francesca Pocaterra, ARPAV, Italy
- The biodiversity of soil microfungi in Colombia - Ms Nicola Lidia, University of Pavia, Italy
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Drivers of short-to-medium term litter decomposition across biomes - Ms Ika Djukic, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland
Litter decomposition and organic matter turnover by soil fauna in a sustainably managed olive grove - Mr Adriano Sofo, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy
Developing a systematic sampling method for earthworms in and around deadwood - Mr Frank Ashwood, Forest Research, United Kingdom
Soil biodiversity and physico-hydraulic function: How earthworm and plant root interaction contribute to ecosystem services? - Mr Jamal Hallam, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)-CRRA-Agadir, Morocco
Parallel session 2 | Click on the Room link - Passcode: GSOBI-PS2
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Soil Biodiversity from sciences to action – Feedback from two decades of soil bio-indicators development as agricultural soil management tool - Ms Nolwenn Bougon, OFB, France
- Using environmental DNA to assess global soil biodiversity and build a soil quality bioindicator - Ms Eva Bellemain, ARGALY, France
- Integrating Microbiological Quality Indicators and Soil Properties through Score Functions to Assess Land Use Changes in Colombian Andisols - Mr Raul Aranguren, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- Bioturbations as quality indicators of typic Argiudolls in the southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A micromorphological approach - Ms Fernanda Alvarez, Universitat Nacional Mar de Plata, Argentina
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
- Soil macrofauna biodiversity in Paraserianthes falcataria and Morus alba plant agroforestry in Bali Island - Mr Nanang Sasmita, Udayana University, Indonesia
- Soil macroinvertebrates diversity and glyphosate distribution in soybean plantations and surroundings at the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico - Ms Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
- Enchytraeids in two phytophysiognomies of Brazilian Cerrado - Ms Cintia Carla Niva, EMBRAPA, Brazil
- Regard and protect ground-nesting bees as part of soil biodiversity - Ms Stefanie Christmann, ICARDA, Morocco
THEME 2: SOIL BIODIVERSITY IN ACTION
Parallel session 3 | Click on the Room link - Passcode GSOBI-PS3
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Soil biodiversity: Why should we care? - Ms Briones M.J.I., Universidad de Vigo, Spain
- Soil biodiversity in action at ecosystem level - Mr Flavio Fornasier, CREA VE, Italy
- Soil biodiversity for agricultural production and environmental integrity - Mr Franz Bender, Research Division Agroecology and Environment Agroscope, Switzerland
- Participatory learning action is important for community action to improve soil-biodiversity - Mr Jayesh Joshi, Vaagdhara, India
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
A coordinated research enterprise on agricultural soil microbiomes and soil ecosystems across USDA research locations - Mr David B. Knaebel, USDA - Agricultural Research Service, USA
Understanding impact of soil biology on crops: the key to sustainability of farming systems - Mr Gerard Rass, APAD-GCAN, France, and Ms Marie-Thérèse Gaessler, Gässler SARL, France
Soil functioning relates to land use in a sustainably managed agro-sylvo-pastoral ecosystem - Ms Sofia R. Costa, University of Minho, Portugal
Utilization of soil microbial diversity for crop production in Sri Lanka - Mr Ananda Kulasooriya, National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka
Parallel session 4 | Click on the Room link - Passcode GSOBI-PS4
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Termites promote resource patchiness in Asia and constitute a model for achieving the sustainable development goals - Mr Pascal Jouquet, CNRS, IRD, INRA, France
- Re-carbonization of soils with intensive agricultural use with the presence of pine forests and provision of fungal ecosystem services (suilus luteus and suilus granulatus). Chilean experiences - Mr Samuel Francke Campaña, CONAF, Chile
- Good agricultural practices help to restore sustainable biodiversity - Ms Beata Houšková, NPPC-VÚPOP, Slovakia
- Intercrop management as a tool to increase soil fungal diversity on rainfed almond cultivations - Mr Raúl Ortega, University of Almería, Spain
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
- Recovery of soils biodiversity on reclaimed drilling pads of oil-gas wells in East Ukraine - Ms Oksana Naidonova, National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Ukraine
- Urban soil biodiversity: A multi-city comparison - Ms Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance in dry Afromontane forests in northern Ethiopia - Mr Ermias Betemariam, ICRAF, Ethiopia
- Diversity in soil fauna: a good tool for soil quality monitoring - Ms Cristina Menta, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
THEME 3: SOIL BIODIVERSITY SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FOOD SYSTEMS
Parallel session 5 | Click on the Room link - Passcode GSOBI-PS5
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Minimal herbicide-based conservation tillage enhances soil macrofauna abundance and distribution in Uganda - Mr Patrick Musinguzi, Makerere University, Uganda
- Perceptions on soil macrofauna in the agricultural field - Ms Marie L.C. Bartz, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
- Biodiversity in hay meadows: effects of intensive agriculture on epigeic macro-invertebrates - Ms Julia Plunger, Eurac Research, Institute for Alpine Environment, Italy
- Soil organic carbon and enzymatic activity under conservation agriculture in Moroccan dry land - Mr Rachid Moussadek, ICARDA/INRA, Morocco
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Repeated applications of organic amendments promote beneficial microbiota, improve soil fertility - Mr Mohamed Idbella, Faculty of Agriculture, Federico II university of Naples, Italy
Microbial biodiversity in the field is related to fruit and vegetable health and linked to postharvest quality - Mr Peter Kusstatscher, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Austria
Effect of free living nematodes and their associated microbial community on conservation biological control, utilizing soil predatory mites - Mr Eric Palevsky, Agricultural Research Organization, Ramat Yishay, Israel
Microbial resources for Mozambican agriculture: use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as a sustainable alternative to chemical input in cotton production - Ms Íris Victorino, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
Parallel session 6 | Click on the Room link - Passcode GSOBI-PS6
14:00 - 15:00 CEST
- Soil biodiversity management for food security - Ms Veronica Andrea El Mujtar, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias (IFAB, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET), Argentina
- From soil to table: Agroforestry systems as an alternative to regenerative agriculture - Ms Karina Gonçalves David, Rede Ecovida, AOPA - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Agroecologia, Brazil
- Enabling barley production in arid soils by only exploiting the indigenous microbial biodiversity - Ms Anna Rosa Sprocati, ENEA-Casaccia, Italy
15:00 - 16:00 CEST
- Rhizosphere ecological interactions for improved plant health and nutrition in sustainable agricultural production - Ms Cristina Lazcano, University of California Davis, USA
- Symbiotic relationships and effectiveness of soybean rhizobia in soils of the Nigerian savanna - Mr Anthony Ozoemenam Uzoma, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
- Exploring the potential of three Rhizobium strains from Peruvian soils as biofertilizers for the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) - Ms Yohana Aguilar-Cuba, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Perú
- Influence of soil type on the biodegradation of pesticides by rhizobacteria: case of Glyphosate and paraquat - Mr Mohamed Maldani, UMI, Morocco