Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455444

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0455444

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Saltland pastures in Southern Australia - opportunities for carbon sequestration and salinity management. Expanding areas of dryland salinity now seem inevitable in southern Australia. There is good evidence that productive saltland pastures can be developed on these areas, and there are opportunities to use these pastures for gaining carbon credits. The present study will account for the effects of saltland pasture establishment and management on carbon sequestration and for greenhouse gas emissions from their saline, waterlogged soils. Budgets of carbon sequestration on saltland pastures will be critical evidence for Article 3.4 negotiations under the Kyoto Agreement. Scaled-up estimates of the carbon sequestered will account for site factors, composition of pastures and grazing.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2004

End Date: 12-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $250,540.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Soil Chemistry | Crop And Pasture Production Not Elsewhere Classified | Land Capability And Soil Degradation | Soil Sciences |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Browse crops | Rehabilitation of degraded farmland

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