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Determining the factors that contribute to soil resilience and its ability to sustain vital functions in managed landscapes across a range of scales

Reference	BBS/E/G/00003015
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Philip Matthew Haygarth
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Inst of Grassland and Environmental Res
Department	Inst of Grassland and Environmental Res Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,721,351
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2006
End date	31/03/2008
Duration	24 months

Abstract

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.

Summary

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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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