Researchers: Dr Peter Isaac (Managed by)
Brief description Awarded by: Australian research Council Grant No.: DP0772981 Grant Description: ARC Discovery project Grant title: Patterns and processes of carbon and water budgets across northern Australian landscapes: From point to region Summary: Quantifying carbon sources and sinks and understanding the underlying processes are pre-requisites to informed policy decisions, especially as nations seek to develop strategies to manage carbon emissions and sequestration. Australia is unique because of its poor soils and high climate variability and is likely to have patterns and process of carbon that are globally different. We focus on Australia's Top-End region, but will develop tools/methods that can be applied to other important Australian hot-spots. This project will support the existing National Carbon Accounting System by providing new information on processes and spatial variability and regional budgets of carbon and water budgets that underpin our international commitments.