Rapid changes in climate and land use are placing increasing pressure on ecosystems such as forests, agricultural landscapes, rangelands and wetlands, where soils, vegetation, and landforms are tightly interconnected. These pressures drive soil degradation, shifts in vegetation patterns, and losses of essential ecosystem services, often involving nonlinear responses and thresholds in ecosystem stability.
This session focuses on understanding the processes that govern soil–vegetation–landforms interactions, soil resource conservation, and landscape resilience under climatic and human disturbances. We welcome theoretical, modelling, and empirical studies addressing, at different spatial scales, soil degradation processes—such as erosion, salinisation, desertification, nutrient loss, and pollution—as well as the spatial organization of soils and vegetation that shapes ecosystem function and stability including influence and impact on societal aspects.
We also invite contributions on sustainable and restorative practices, including conservation agriculture, agro-forestry, soil amendments, erosion and salinity control, and other nature‑based solutions that enhance soil health, water retention, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience. Approaches combining methodologies such as modelling, long‑term observations, remote sensing, participatory methods, and policy frameworks are particularly encouraged.
Overall, the session aims to advance an integrated understanding of how soils, vegetation, and landforms coevolve under global change, and how sustainable management can support long‑term soil conservation, productivity, and multifunctionality.