Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170102766
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and its components. This project aims to demonstrate how temperate evergreen forests could buffer against climate change. Soil respiration returns around half the carbon taken up by forests to the atmosphere. This project will characterise and quantify how microbes and roots in soils depend on temperature and substrate supply, and so predict how rising temperatures and drought will affect forests as natural carbon sequestration sinks. This project will resolve the roles of environmental drivers of soil respiration across forests; integrate mechanistic understanding of differing plant and microbial responses to temperature within a common modelling framework; and evaluate the implications of this knowledge in predictions of climatic impacts on terrestrial carbon cycling.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2017
End Date: 06-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $405,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ecosystem Function | Ecological Applications | Ecological Physiology | Global Change Biology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plant Production | Native Forests |
