Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101733

Funded Activity Summary

The mangrove carbon pump: Resolving the contribution of underground respiration to mangrove greenhouse gas and carbon budgets. Mangroves are considered an important global carbon sink. However, there is an imbalance of about 50 per cent in mangrove carbon budgets. This project will resolve whether advective pore water exchange and associated underground respiration represents the missing component of mangrove carbon and greenhouse gas budgets. This innovative project will examine the previously overlooked concept that crab burrow flushing is a major driver of biogeochemical reactions in mangroves. It will use a combination of new experimental and modelling approaches and will contribute to closing a significant gap in our understanding of the coastal carbon cycle.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $395,220.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochemistry | Chemical Oceanography | Isotope Geochemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Coastal and Estuarine Environments |

Other Keywords

Chemical Oceanography | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Geochemistry | Isotope Geochemistry | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Coastal and Estuarine Environments

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