Determining the factors that contribute to soil resilience and its ability to sustain vital functions in managed landscapes across a range of scales
Lead Research Organisation:
Inst of Grassland and Environmental Res
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The overall objective is to add significantly to the body of scientific knowledge required to design and confidently predict the outcome of management practices that will maintain or enhance soil quality, as defined by fitness for current and future land use, while also adapting to or minimising local and global change. This objective will be met by: 1. Developing and applying novel techniques to understand the biology and function of soil organisms or communities that mediate the processes of biogeochemical cycling (water, nutrients and pollutants) and pollutant degradation. 2. Elucidating how carbon-derived energy drives biogeochemical cycles and food webs in the soil-plant system, and how knowledge of its interaction with other energy inputs (such as water flow and tillage) might serve to provide a unified systems-based approach to the understanding of soil resilience and function across scales. 3. Exploring and modelling the physical and biological architecture of soils and the spatio-temporal interactions between soil-inhabiting organisms (including plants), molecules and particles. 4. Measuring and modelling the spatial and temporal variation of biogeochemical cycles across a range of scales from rhizosphere through catchment to global.
Planned Impact
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Philip Matthew Haygarth (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Dungait JA
(2008)
Enhancing the understanding of earthworm feeding behaviour via the use of fatty acid delta13C values determined by gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
Dungait JA
(2008)
Off-line pyrolysis and compound-specific stable carbon isotope analysis of lignin moieties: a new method for determining the fate of lignin residues in soil.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
Harrison K
(2008)
PREFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT NITROGEN FORMS BY COEXISTING PLANT SPECIES AND SOIL MICROBES: REPLY
in Ecology
Lopez-Capel E
(2008)
Influence of recent vegetation on labile and recalcitrant carbon soil pools in central Queensland, Australia: evidence from thermal analysis-quadrupole mass spectrometry-isotope ratio mass spectrometry.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
Meijide A
(2010)
Dual isotope and isotopomer measurements for the understanding of N 2 O production and consumption during denitrification in an arable soil
in European Journal of Soil Science
Senbayram M
(2008)
Long-term influence of manure and mineral nitrogen applications on plant and soil 15N and 13C values from the Broadbalk Wheat Experiment.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
Turnbull L
(2008)
Use of carbon isotope analysis to understand semi-arid erosion dynamics and long-term semi-arid land degradation.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
Weber P
(2008)
Large old trees influence patterns of delta13C and delta15N in forests.
in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
| Description | 1. Developed and applied techniques to understand the biology and function of soil organisms that mediate the processes of biogeochemical cycling 2. Studied how carbon interacts with biogeochemical cycles in agricultural systems 3. Explored and modelled the physical and biological architecture of soils and the spatio-temporal interactions between soil-inhabiting organisms (including plants), molecules and particles 4. Measured and modelled the spatial and temporal variation of biogeochemical cycles |
| Exploitation Route | The findings can be used to assess the factors that contribute to soil resilience and its ability to sustain functions in agricultural landscapes |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink |