The IUSS Conference on Soils Functions and Climate Change will addresses the broad question: 'Do we underestimate the consequences of new disequilibria in soil properties?'. The conference aims to increase understanding of how interactions among physical, chemical and biological soil processes under different land-use systems and climate conditions will alter soil properties.

Specific topics to be covered include: 

• Soil structure and pore rigidity effects as prerequisites for quantification of physicochemical processes
• Effects of (limited) pore rigidity and soil resilience 
• Innovative approaches to predict climate change induced affected sinks and sources of e.g. atmospheric C, nutrient, water and its consequences to their accessibility and availability
• Modelling approaches to quantify effects of (limited ) soil rigidity on mass flow and diffusion at various scales- from the micro- to macroscale