Major goals
- The development and use of biophysical models that are capable of quantifying the impacts and trade-offs from land use and management decisions. This includes the impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon storage and production.
- The development and experimental testing of novel mitigation technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from managed land.
Examples of our work
- Modelling the potential impact of management strategies on greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon storage in grazed pastures.
- Quantifying the reduction in nitrous oxide emissions from novel mitigation technologies under field conditions.
- Improvements to the National Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Field research from our Integrated management of carbon, nutrients & water research is used to develop the process-based modelling. The modelling is then used to develop scenarios to inform future research in that research area, or to feed into spatial upscaling activities in the Climate-smart landscapes research area.
