Posters will be displayed in the catering area for the duration of the symposium. Authors must print their posters A0 size (84.1cm wide x 118.9cm high) in portrait orientation.  Landscape posters will not be accommodated at the venue.  Please see below for schedule of poster presentation sessions, authors are expected to stand by their poster during their designated session to answer questions from delegates.

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Onsite: Poster authors should bring their printed posters to the symposium venue and attach them to the board numbered for their poster.  Materials for affixing posters to boards will be provided onsite.  Posters will be displayed for the duration of the symposium from Sunday 6th October to Thursday 10th October.  Be sure to remove your posters on Thursday prior to your departure.  Any posters remaining once the symposium concludes will be disposed of.

POSTER SESSION 1: MONDAY 7TH OCTOBER

C SEQUESTRATION – OPPORTUNITIES, COSTS, TRADE-OFFS Soils are increasingly being looked to as a potentially important tool in our efforts to offset emissions and reduce our impacts on the global climate. However, such a concept is hotly contested. Here, the latest research assessing the opportunities and impacts of such strategies will be discussed.
01	The response of soil carbon to no-till depends on climate	Dr Denis Angers
02	Dynamics of soil carbon sequestration in tropical and temperate agricultural systems (DSCATT)	Dr Isabelle Bertrand
03	Forest conversion effects on SOM composition: Disentangling effects of parent material and litter input chemistry	Olaf Brock
04	What change does the quantity of root mass and seasonality make to soil organic carbon?	Ivanah Oliver
05	Enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen storage with sheep grazing in dryland cropping sequences	Dr Upendra Sainju
06	Reducing GHGs emission and promoting SOC sequestration in the croplands of Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, China: A simulation study	Dr Guocheng Wang
07	Carbon sequestration as soil organic and inorganic carbon in the agricultural land of Northern China: A review and perspective	Prof. Xiujun Wang
08	Influences of organic amendment and phosphorus fertilization on soil organic and inorganic carbon in a saline-alkali paddy of the Yellow River Delta	Prof. Xiujun Wang
09	Quality of soil organic matter affected by long-term organic manure input rather than synthetic fertilizer	Prof. Xueyun Yang
10	Carbon Connects: A European project on changing traditional high GHG emitting peatland management practices to sustainable low carbon alternatives	Prof. Emiel Elferink
11	The effects of long term no-tillage on the chemical composition of soil organic matter	Zhangliu Du
12	Higher depletion of soil carbon stock by liming in maize cropping upland soil	Prof. Piljoo Kim, Jeonggu Lee
13	Corncob-derived low-pyrolysis temperature biochar protects soil organic (C) and improves C use efficiency and soil quality of semi-arid climate alkaline soil	Dr Muhammad Riaz
14	Links between soil carbon sequestration, root elongation rate and functional traits in 12 herbaceous species	Lorenzo Rossi
15	Grazing into the future: Building soil carbon using perennial pasture species	Dr Zakaria Solaiman
16	Biochar effects on native soil carbon stocks five years after application	Dr Xinliang Dong
17	The Home Field Advantage theory could be used for carbon sequestration and forest management?	Dr Nicholas Valette

IMPACTS OF FIRE AND ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION THROUGH SOM RECOVERY Remediation and restoration practices can often focus on the role of SOM in the success of these activities. An increasingly common phenomenon of wildfire also impacts on SOM content and chemistry. This session presents an opportunity to share research that demonstrates the role that SOM plays in successful land remediation and restoration, and to understand the impacts of fire on SOM.
18	Unravelling the climate-soil-management interaction to explore SOM in the Brigalow Belt bioregion, Queensland, Australia	Dr Diane Allen
19	Influence of no-tilled organic farming system with cover crops on soil organic matter and weed control	Dr Jung-lai Cho
20	Integrating promising legume cover crop in conservation agriculture practices significantly improve wheat and soil productivity in Tigray, Ethiopian highlands	Dr Gebreyohannes Girmay
21	Trialing recycled organics materials (compost) to improve soils in the beef industry – North Coast NSW	Kelvin Langfield
22	Arsenic mitigation and soil health improvement by using Biochar as a organic amendment	Nashir Uddin Mahmud
23	Pattern of soil organic matter content in reclaimed tide lands with different reclamation time in Korea	Dr Jin-hee Ryu
24	Pattern of organic residue decomposition in saline soils of Bangladesh	Dr Mohammad Ekram Ul Haque

THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL VALUE OF SOM AND THE UN SDGS The fact that SOM delivers multiple ecosystem services is well known. However, there remains a dearth of quantitative information on the value of these services to land managers, agriculture, and broader society, necessary in order to implement the UN SDGs. This session aims to draw together information that elucidates the short- and long-term value of SOM, and the impacts of building or losing this resource on society’s ability to meet the requirements of the SDGs.
25	Soil organic carbon fractions under smallholder farmer conservation agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa	Stuart Irvine-Brown
26	Farmers, advisers and researchers’ perceptions of soil organic matter	Dr Nathan Robinson
THE LIVING PART OF SOM – MICROBES, MICROFAUNA, MESOFAUNA, MACROFAUNA Soils are the most complex ecosystem on the planet, and the biological component of them is hugely influential on SOM processes. Presentations are invited which describe the latest research in the field of soil biology and its interactions with SOM.
27	Soil microbial activity and nutrient dynamics with soil depth, under mixed tree species environmental plantings in NSW, Australia	Apsara Amarasinghe
28	Mineral regulations on microbial necromass accumulation efficiency in soils	Yue Cai
29	Spatial and temporal evolution of detritusphere hotspots at different soil moistures	Prof. Claire Chenu
30	Spatial variation of earthworm communities and soil organic carbon in temperate agroforestry	Prof. Claire Chenu
31	Biological factors controlling soil carbon sequestration after organic amendments in agricultural soils  in Zambia (Africa)	Toru Hamamoto
32	Relationship between soil microbial diversity and its carbon use efficiency under different land-use in Tanzania	Hana Kobayashi
33	Impacts of aridity on soil organic matter and microbial communities using phospholipid fatty acid techniques	Athina Puccini
34	Impacts of biostimulants on soil biological properties and nutrient content of wheat	Jenendra Wadduwage
35	Soil amino acids on association converted to peptide-polypeptide and protein part of humic molecules during humification process	Dr Sanjib Kar

POSTER SESSION 2: TUESDAY 8TH OCTOBER

RAPID AND HIGH RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES Over the past decades, the capabilities of instrumentation has increased rapidly both in resolution and throughput. Here we explore the opportunities and discoveries made possible as a result of rapid spectral techniques backed by modern chemometric approaches, and the new discoveries made possible through the application of high-resolution mass spectrometry, synchrotron, and other cutting edge techniques
36	Aluminium-DOM precipitation: A high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS) study	Olaf Brock
37	Subsoil management in agricultural soil: Visualizing the impacts on soil organic carbon stocks and distribution by hyperspectral imaging and machine learning algorithms	Dr Julien Guigue
38	Evaluation of soil organic matter stability by Rock-Eval pyrolysis – Influence of organic content and texture on measured parameters	Dr Katell Quenea
39	Utilizing rapid spectral techniques to assess impacts of agriculture on soil function in pacific soils	Dr Uta Stockmann
40	Field testing labile soil organic carbon using potassium permanganate in tropical soils	Dr Wipawan Thaymuang
41	Introducing analytical results database (ARDB): Intuitive database management, data visualisation and quality control	Dr Lutz Lange
42	Characterization of soil humic acid reacting with calcium ion and its application	Dr Baohua Xiao
43	22-years long-term fertilizations increase soil organic carbon and alter its chemical composition in three wheat/maize cropping sites across central to south China	Prof. Xinhua He
44	Strategies to improve the prediction of organic carbon in bulk soil and fractions from a target region using an existing national mid-IR library	Dr Jeff Baldock
45	Nanoscale chemical imaging of organo-mineral fractions of an andosol (La Martinique, France)	Dr Isabelle Basile-Soelsch
46	Plant residues and fungal growth as drivers for microaggregate formation in the detritusphere	Dr Alix Vidal

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND USE ON SOM Climate change may impact SOM directly through changed temperature and moisture regimes, and indirectly through changed vegetation assemblages or land management practices. This session aims to draw together new research on how SOM responds to these impacts, with a particular focus on potential tipping points where resistance to change may be overwhelmed.
47	Short-term effects of re-grazing on soil microorganisms and biogeochemistry at a long-term abandoned alpine pasture	Dr Alix Vidal
48	The role of Ectomycorrhizal fungi mediating soil organic matter mineralisation: Impacts of N availability and CO2 conditions	Dr Yolima Carrillo
49	Leaf litter decomposition of adjacent natural broadleaf and Japanese cedar forests in the mid-elevation mountain area, Xitou, Taiwan	Dr Chiou Pin Chen
50	Soil organic and inorganic carbon distribution in soil as influenced by land uses in degraded saline land of Northwest India	Dr Ashim Datta
51	Combined biomarker analysis and inversed modelling for the environmental reconstruction of the Beerberg peatland sequence (Thuringia, Germany)	Dr Sylvie Derenne
52	Does grazing intensity affects organic matter of  a Subtropical Oxisol under integrated crop-livestock system?	Prof. Deborah Dick
53	Humus build-up in Frisian agricultural soils, towards a certificate trading scheme	Prof. Emiel Elferink
54	Effect of detritus input change on microorganisms in forest soils	Dr István Fekete
55	Warming depleted the δ13CO2 values of soil respiration and accelerated the loss of the light fraction of SOC	Prof. Chunsheng Hu
56	Vegetation and precipitation shifts interact with soil depth to change dryland carbon and nitrogen storage	Dr David Huber
57	Change in physical properties of forest soils in a long-term experiment of detritus input and removal treatment	Dr Katalin Juhos
58	Changes in soil organic carbon over 24 years depending on plant cover and weather conditions	Dr Karin Kauer
59	TeaComposition: Effect of organic matter manipulation on a tea leaf litter decomposition experiment in a deciduous forest	Dr Zsolt Kotroczó
60	Soil properties predict greenhouse gas fluxes and their temperature sensitivities in three land-cover types near Sydney, Australia	Dr Elise Pendall
61	Temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition and priming across a productivity gradient in Australian eucalypt forests	Dr Elise Pendall
62	Bioclimatic factors associated with soil organic carbon accrual in subtropical Indo-gangetic croplands of Nepal	Roshan Babu Ojha
63	The hydrophobicity characteristics and IR spectra of tropical peat soil: Case study of land use change in ex mega rice project Kalimantan	Dony Rachmandi
64	Monitoring grassland management effects on soil organic carbon – a matter of scale	Dr Cornelia Rumpel
65	Effect of 50-year term different crop rotations on soil organic matter	Lina Skinuliene
66	Soil organic carbon stock under the different land use types in kersa sub watershed	Dr Yared Mulat Tefera
67	Organic amendments combined with chemical fertilizers improves soil organic matter and crop yields under rice-based intensive cropping systems	Dr Sohela Akhter
68	The effects of long-term nitrogen addition on the composition and sequestration of SOM in a boreal forest	Dr Shun Hasegawa
69	Dynamics of soil humus formation under different agricultural systems	A/Prof. Zita Kriaučiūnienė
70	Impact of land use on soil organic carbon stock in gibbsic ferralsols of Maré, Loyalty Island (New Caledonia)	Dr Audrey Leopold
71	Changes in SOC content in a long term field experiment with different N rates	Prof. Milan Mesic
72	Soil type and residue incorporation (tillage) affects the climate change mitigation potential of grassland soils	Elaine Mitchell
73	Impact of irrigation on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks	Dr Paul Mudge
74	Simulation in the changes in soil C and N stocks with the use and cover in a transitional Amazonian-Cerrado forest environment	Prof. Teogenes Oliveira
75	Carbon dynamics in soils: Evolution of organo-mineral interactions after a forest to vineyard transition	Solène Quero
76	Temporal and spatial variation of soil organic matter and soil acidity in surface soils under rice-based intensive farming in floodplain soils	Md Noor E Alam Siddique
77	Vertical pattern and its driving factors in soil EEA and stoichiometry along mountain grassland belts	Prof. Wei Wang
78	Effects of nitrogen loss on SOC decomposition and its regulation by temperature and moisture	Xiaodong Yao
79	LIFE Nadapta: Considering soils vulnerability and resilience in a regional adaptation strategy of agriculture to the effects of climate change.	Rodrigo Antón
80	Examining correlations between organic carbon chemistry and δ15N abundance in soils across an aridity gradient	Janine McGowan, Steve Szarvas
81	Carbon sequestration and stabilization in a 40-year agronomic long-term experiment	Dr Markus Steffens

GOING DOWNUNDER: DEEP SOM DYNAMICS Possibly seen as the last frontier, SOM in subsoils is far less studied than its surface counterparts. Here, we seek presentations that highlight recent advances in this area and which draw parallels with and highlight differences between processes in surface soils.
82	Organic carbon decomposition rates with depth under an agroforestry system in a calcareous soil	Prof. Claire Chenu
83	Changes in microbial biomass, community composition and diversity, and functioning with soil depth in two alpine ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau	Tianle Xu
84	Organic manure input not benefit for inorganic carbon accumulation in semiarid cropland	Prof. Shulan Zhang
85	N and P co-limitation of carbon turnover in a clayey loam very deep subsoil	Leanne Peixoto

POSTER SESSION 3: WEDNESDAY 9TH OCTOBER

ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND FUNCTION OF SOM SOM performs many ecosystem services in both natural and managed systems, yet mechanisms involved in its interaction with other biophysical processes such as nutrient cycling, water retention, structural stability remain difficult to fully elucidate. This session provides a forum in which research addressing these underlying questions, and the impacts they have on broader ecosystem processes can be presented.
86	Biochar activation by co-application with manure into the soil	Martin Brtnicky
87	Relationships between SOM and nitrogen availability	Thomas Carter
88	Climate and soil type effects on crop residue decomposition	Dr Denis Curtin
89	Methodology to predict nitrogen mineralisation in agricultural soils in New Zealand	Dr Mike Beare
90	Changes in chemical and thermal indices of soil organic matter stability with time – method validation using a controlled incubation study	Dr Adam Gillespie
91	Appraisal of legume cover crops for conservation agriculture in Tigray, northern Ethiopian highlands	Dr Gebreyohannes Girmay
92	Changes in soil properties and possibilities of reducing environmental risks due to the application of biological activators in conditions of very heavy soils	Dr Oldrich Latal
93	Topsoil water repellence increased early wheat growth and nutrition	Simon Yeap
94	Crop straw retain increases soil organic matter content in a wheat-maize rotation system	Dr Yuming Zhang
95	Nitrogen mineralization related to light-fraction and hot-water extractable carbon in pasture and cropping soils	Tord Ranheim Sveen
96	Soil organic matter distribution governed by aggregation and decoupled from clay content	Steffen Schweizer
97	Microhabitat-associated hot spots and hot moments of nitrous oxide emissions (N2O) from floodplain soils	Dr Muhammad Riaz

STOICHIOMETRY – DOES IT MATTER? Elemental stoichiometry has been a centrepiece of ecological theory for over 80 years, and forms a central part of many studies into SOM and the models that describe them. Here, we invite talks that explicitly explore relationships between nutrients and SOM processes.
98	Acceleration in N cycling controlled by aggregate size, moisture, substrate quality and phosphorus fertilization in floodplain soil	Dr Muhammad Riaz
99	Nutrient availability drives carbon storage in particulate vs. mineral-associated organic matter in Antarctic soils	A/Prof. Carsten W. Mueller
100	Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming	Dr Zhenke Zhu, Dr Tida Ge
101	Does soil organic matter stoichiometry varied with agricultural practices on the long-term?	Dr Isabelle Bertrand
102	Soil carbon and nutrient dynamics in high and low fertility pasture soils following cultivation	Elizabeth C Coonan
103	Utilising organic nitrogen: Can plants produce protease enzymes from their roots?	Lucy Greenfield
104	Wheat-derived SOC accumulates more than its maize counterpart in nutrients supplied wheat-maize cropping system	Dr Xinliang Dong

SOM, MODELLING, AND DATA SCIENCE Simulation models describing SOM dynamics have been around for decades, and perform roles at levels ranging from the molecular and microbial scale through to global carbon accounts and climate predictions. Recent advances in computing capacity, data availability, and our understanding of biophyiscal processes have led to huge leaps forward in our capability to model across scales. Here, we provide opportunity for recent advances in modelling and data sciences associated with SOM research to be presented.
105	Plant biomass inputs and soil organic carbon dynamics in woodlands and pastures of central Queensland	Stuart Irvine-Brown
106	Measurement and modelling-induced discrepancies in the long-term contribution of root and added biomass to carbon sequestration in a permanent grassland soil	Dr Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil
107	The methodology for farm-scale modelling for spatio-temporal prediction of soil carbon sequestration under climate change	Emeritus Professor Lynette Abbott
108	Long-term effects of straw removal on soil carbon dynamics in sugarcane cropping systems in south-central Brazil	Dr Ricardo Bordonal

TRANSPORT OF SOM THROUGH LANDSCAPES Desposition and loss of SOM through erosion and leaching processes can have significant impacts at the local, landscape, and global scale. Here, we seek presentations detailing the latest research into the movement of SOM at any or all of these scales.
109	Soil organic matter distribution in a floodplain forest	Dr Mark Farrell

ORGANIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF RECYCLED “WASTES” As organic resource recovery and cycling increase across the globe, organic “wastes” such as biosolids, composts and digestates are increasingly being applied to soils. Here, we discuss the challenges and opportunities such resource streams pose, and how their interactions with soil differ from those of SOM.
110	Influence of organic amendment, tillage method and crop system on soil organic matter and soil microbial properties in newly organic corn cultivation field	Dr Nan-Hee An
111	Biochar produced from water hyacinth in different pyrolysis temperatures as potential P fertlizer	Prof. Deborah Dick
112	Influence of compost and biochar amendments on soil properties and maize yield under tropical conditions	Dr Thuy Doan
113	Optimum input of Vermifilter system in swine wastewater treatment under tropical condition	Dr Thuy Doan
114	Circular use of local biomass for soil fertility in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf	Prof. Emiel Elferink
115	Upcycling domestic food waste: Optimising success for the home composter	Sally Harrison
116	Does animal manure application improve soil aggregation? Insights from nine long-term fertilization experiments	Dr Zichun Guo, Prof. Xinhua Peng
117	Carbon and nitrogen mineralization dynamics of lignite amended manure during incubation with soil	Robert Impraim
118	Organic amendment and soil fertility status in rice-based cropping systems in Bangladesh	Dr Aminul Islam
119	Seasonal changes in soil bacterial processes associated with C and N cycling in dairy pasture after application of compost and manure	Ian Waite
120	Microalgae and phototrophic purple bacteria for nutrient recovery from agri-industrial effluents; influences on plant growth, rhizosphere bacteria, and putative C & N cycling genes	Dr Sasha Jenkins
121	Changes of soil organic carbon in paddy soils from sixty-five years fertilization experiments	Dr Myung-sook Kim
122	Evaluation of decay rate when reed reduction(Phragmites communis Trin ) for organic matter improvement in Saemangeum reclaimed land	Yang-yeol Oh
123	Formulation and evaluation of organo-mineral fertilizer pellets for soil and plant nutrition in low-carbon soil	Prof. Braj Kishore Singh
124	Towards more efficient carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in European agricultural soils: Circular Agronomics program	Dr Alix Vidal
125	Impact of organic amendments on plant biomass and carbon transfer in the soil	Dr Alix Vidal
126	Contributions of residue-C/-N to plant growth and SOM pools under planted and unplanted conditions	Prof. Bingzi Zhao
127	Short-term decomposition, turnover and retention of residue-derived carbon are influenced by the fertility level in a sandy loam soil	Prof. Anning Zhu
128	The effect of lignite and modified coal on nitrogen loss from broiler litter	Brendon Costello
128	Unexpected high mitigation of methane emission via short-term aerobic digestion of cover crop biomass before flooding in rice paddy	Hyeon Ji Song
130	Transformation of corn stalk residue to humus like substances during solid state fermentation with Trichoderma reesei	Prof. Dou Sen