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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP190102262
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Funded Activity Summary
Carbon costs of plant nutrient and water uptake. This project aims to investigate how much carbon plants need to invest belowground in return for water and nutrients. By using economic principles of supply and demand the project will quantify carbon expenditure for water and nutrients in grasslands and crops under different climate and land management scenarios. This project will use triple and quadruple isotope labelling techniques and explore the dependency of carbon investment on plant-microbial interactions and availability of belowground resources. Expected outcomes include new knowledge to build a universal framework about plant carbon-water-nutrient economics. This will benefit global carbon cycling models and efforts to increase nutrient and water use efficiencies in agricultural crops.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 04-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $450,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Microbial Ecology | Ecosystem Function | Ecological Applications | Crop and Pasture Nutrition
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Land and Water Management | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management |
