Soil Carbon & Fertility
Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
Soils are Earth’s largest terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and their responsiveness to land use andmanagement make them appealing targetsfor strategies to enhance C sequestration. Numerous studies haveidentified practices that increase soil C, but their inferences are often based on limited data extrapolated over large areas. Here, we combine 15,000 observations from two national-level databases with remote sensing information to address …
Soils For Life focuses on capturing more rain through better land management
How do you capture every rain drop from the sky, how is it
possible and what difference would that make for our farmers?
The Soils For Life organisation is determined to work out how it can capture more rain for Australian farmers and the landscape.
Their work is based on the 100-drop scenario developed by a scientist called Walter …
Interactions Between The Superb Lyrebird (Menura Novaehollandiae) And Fire In South Eastern Australia
The superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae is thought to be an important ecosystem engineer that, through its foraging, accelerates the decomposition of litter in Eucalyptus forests. Lyrebird foraging is therefore likely to affect forest fuel loads and hence fire behaviour in these fire-prone forests. In turn, fire …