Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0984779
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
How does warming prevent soil nitrogen availability from declining in response to elevated CO2? The sustainable use of the terrestrial environment depends upon maintaining ecosystem productivity which in turn depends upon nutrient availability within the soil. Increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are known to decrease nutrient availability while warming prevents this from happening. The aims of this project are to determine how warming is able to prevent elevated CO2 concentrations from reducing soil N availability and hence productivity in a native grassland ecosystems. This is important, as it will allow likely problems caused by global climate change to be predicted by increasing the understanding of the underlying mechanisms as well as improving the management of grasslands in an environmentally sustainable way.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 06-2014
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $450,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Soil Biology | Soil Chemistry | Soil Sciences | Global Change Biology
