Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100870

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE150100870

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Unravelling the microbial mechanisms of soil nitrous oxide emissions. Soil ecosystems are believed to be the most dominant sources of global nitrous oxide emissions. However, mitigations of nitrous oxide are strongly hindered by lack of knowledge on microbial mechanisms underpinning its production. This project aims to integrate a range of advanced approaches to identify the key nitrogen cycling genes as best predictors of nitrous oxide in field studies, to disentangle relative contribution of microbial pathways to nitrous oxide in glasshouse and microcosm studies, and to validate these findings across various land-use types in Australia and China. This will provide a critical framework incorporating microbial data into the nitrous oxide prediction models for better mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 28-02-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $342,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Ecology | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Soil Sciences | Soil Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils | Forest and Woodlands Soils |

Other Keywords

Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils | Forest and Woodlands Soils | Microbial Ecology | Soil Biology | Soil Sciences

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