Climate Change and Dryland Agricultural Ecosystem Management

Welcome Address
Welcome to 2 nd International Workshop on EAM 2010!
This year, 2010, marks the four-year history of the program of Ecosystem Assessment and
Management program under the funding support of “111” Project. Our theme is to overview the
achievement in the past four years and to see how dryland agronomy will address the problems of
agricultural and environmental sustainable development in arid and semiarid areas. In December 2006,
under the sponsorship of “111” Program, funded by the State Administration of Foreign Experts
Affairs and the Ministry of Education of China, MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology
of Lanzhou University, with overseas universities and research institutions including the University of
Ottawa, McGill University, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center of Canada’s Ministry of
Agriculture, Department of Environmental Protection and some domestic universities, Lanzhou
University hosted the 1st International Workshop on Ecosystem Assessment and Management.
After discussion and consultation, Lanzhou University, and the University of Western Australia
have decided to hold the 2 nd International Workshop on EAM from 20 to 24 July 2010. The workshop
will focus on agricultural development in arid and semi-arid areas and the status quo of the ecological
environment and social development of the region.
Twenty-five key speakers will present the science of plant-soil interaction in dryland environments
and its future. In addition, 18 young scientists will report their progresses in climate change and
dryland agriculture ecosystem management. There will be three special issues including Plant and
Soil, Crop & Pasture Science and Acta Ecologia Sinica to publish the selected papers from the
Workshop. There will be two scientific tours on July 23. It is our wish that this workshop will be
enjoyable and a scientific milestone for those in the field.
Co-chair of Workshop
Yangtze Professor Feng-Min Li
Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology
Affiliated to Ministry of Education (MOE),
Lanzhou University, China
Tel/Fax: 86-931-8912848
Email: fmli@lzu.edu.cn
Co-chair of Workshop
Winthrop Professor Kadambot Siddique, FTSE
Chair in Agriculture and Director
Institute of Agriculture,
The University of Western Australia
Tel: 61-8-64887012, Fax: 61-8-6488 7354
Email: ksiddique@fnas.uwa.edu.au
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