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KULUNDA: How to prevent the next »Global Dust Bowl«? Ecological and economic strategies for sustainable land management in the Russian steppes: A potential solution to climate change. Subproject 3: Soil ecology, metabolism, agricultural economics, environment
Project
Project code: 01LL0905E
Contract period: 01.10.2011
- 30.09.2016
Budget: 93,365 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
The overarching goals of this subproject are:
to lay the scientific basis for sustainable and carbon-optimized land management in the largest conversion areas in the world, located in the south Siberian/Kazakh steppes
to investigate how these vulnerable agricultural ecosystems can be best adapted to climate change.
Individual objectives are:
to evaluate the organic carbon (OC) storage in soils under different land use and soil management and to estimate C sequestration under optimized land use and abandoned arable fields as compared to conventional tillage.
to quantify the C turnover of the OC by combining a stable C isotope pulse-labeling experiment and 14C approaches.
to assess the consequences of climate change on the sustainability of the C sequestration in soil carrying out the above studies along climatic gradient in the Kulunda steppe.
to provide the scientific basis for the establishment of a decision making tool (model) for carbon-friendly and sustainable soil management.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agroecology
- Soil science
- Agroeconomics
- Climate Change
