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Sustainable land management for reducing long-term ecosystem change and environmental pollution

Reference	BBS/E/C/00004692
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Keith Goulding
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	223,612
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2005
End date	31/03/2008
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Sustainable land management practices are required that minimise diffuse pollution from agriculture to soil, air and water, meeting the requirements of the Water Framework Directive and mitigating climate change. The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN), established in 1992, monitors key components of environmental change and seeks to relate them to controlling factors such as land management. Rothamsted is a founding site of the ECN, and its ECN activities have become part of its Classical and other long-term experiments; these make an essential and unique contribution to developing sustainable land management systems. In addition to the regular monitoring of soils, crops, waters and the weather, specific research will be made on carbon and greenhouse gas budgets and losses of nitrogen and phosphorus to waters. In particular, recent BBSRC-funded research ('The impact of land management practice on the global warming potential of UK agriculture', D16053) began measurements of carbon fluxes above agricultural land as part of an assessment of land management practices on greenhouse gas fluxes. These measurements will continue within this project and be fed into the EU-funded CarboEurope-IP, which aims to understand and quantify the present terrestrial carbon balance of Europe and the associated uncertainty at local, regional and continental scales. Objectives:1. To monitor environmental change and determine the factors controlling change within the UK Environmental Change Network. 2. To study the impacts of land management on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and losses of nitrogen and phosphorus to waters, and develop sustainable land management strategies.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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