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24-28 July, 2006	The 6th International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR VI)
25-28 February, 2006	The Eighth International Conference on Dry Lands Development

The 6th International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR VI)

24 - 29, July, 2006
University of Guelph, Canada

Patterns of runoff and soil erosion represent the two-dimensional response of the landscape to rainstorm events. These patterns illustrate in a complex and yet incompletely-understood way the spatial variability of important soil and landscape surface characteristics.

Over the last decade there has been increasing recognition of the significance of such patterns for understanding and predicting erosion and its environmental impacts. For example, improved insight into the way in which patterns of runoff and soil loss vary with spatial scale may help us to better comprehend the value and limitations of plot studies with respect to erosion in a wider, real-landscape context. A better appreciation of the role of dynamic connectivity in runoff and sediment delivery may assist in improving our estimates of landscape response to modest and extreme rainfall events. Similarly, improved understanding of patterns of aeolian erosion and deposition may facilitate prediction of wind erosion's impacts.

The meeting will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research on runoff and erosion patterns at scales from the small plot to the landscape. The thematic issue is a follow-up of the International Symposium on 'The significance of soil surface characteristics in soil erosion', held in Strasbourg, France in September 2001.

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The Eighth International Conference on Dry Lands Development

25-28 February, 2006
Bejing, China

For more information: http://www.icarda.org/Announcement/8th_International_Conference_on_Development.htm

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