A digital platform for soil carbon
A minute annual increase in topsoil carbon over the 300 million hectares of pastoral leases in Australia could potentially offset Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from all sources. Soil carbon is also a significant indicator of soil health and sustainable production.
The major constraints for realising this potential are:
- limited knowledge of best practice management options that offer the greatest potential to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks
- the high cost of validating small but long-term changes in soil C stocks in resource constrained grazed landscapes with high soil and vegetation variability
- lack of information on the potential value of co-benefits associated with altered grazing regime.
The goal of this project is to develop and implement a digital platform to fully integrate the measurement, modelling and verification of SOC at scale in response to management in extensive grazing systems of Australia.
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