Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP100200825
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Fires, black carbon, greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon balance of southern sclerophyll forests. Ecologically sustainable forest management requires an understanding of the role of fire in the carbon balance of native forests, and in Australia's overall carbon balance. Fires are crucial to both this carbon balance and to the ecology of the forests. This project will help forest managers make decisions about using prescribed fire to manage fuels while at the same time managing carbon. An aim of management is to identify fire regimes that will optimise the carbon outcome as well as provide protection to life and property. This project will help managers meet that aim by developing a quantitative understanding of how much stable, black carbon (charcoal) is produced and how it affects other soil processes.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2011
End Date: 05-2015
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $520,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Terrestrial Ecology | Soil Sciences | Forestry Fire Management | Carbon Sequestration Science
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Forest and Woodlands Soils |
