Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102766]
Researchers:
Arndt, Stefan
(Chief Investigator)
,
Mark Tjoelker
(Chief Investigator)
,
Pendall, Elise
(Chief Investigator)
,
Eric Davidson
(Partner Investigator)
,
Eva van Gorsel
(Partner Investigator)
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Brief description Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and its components. This project aims to demonstrate how temperate evergreen forests could buffer against climate change. Soil respiration returns around half the carbon taken up by forests to the atmosphere. This project will characterise and quantify how microbes and roots in soils depend on temperature and substrate supply, and so predict how rising temperatures and drought will affect forests as natural carbon sequestration sinks. This project will resolve the roles of environmental drivers of soil respiration across forests; integrate mechanistic understanding of differing plant and microbial responses to temperature within a common modelling framework; and evaluate the implications of this knowledge in predictions of climatic impacts on terrestrial carbon cycling.
Funding Amount $405,500
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102766
- ARC : DP170102766