Integrative assessment of disturbance and land-use change on total greenhouse gas balance and nutrient cycling in savanna ecosystems

预计气候变化和变率将对北领地的环境和经济产生影响。这个项目将使北领地能够专门校准气候变率——土地利用模式，例如国家碳核算系统。北领地政府将有机会使用高质量的数据库和有关温室气体排放与土地利用变化的关系的校准模型。该项目将改进对温室气体的估计和管理，并为北部地区潜在地利用未来的碳交易倡议或温室气体减排计划提供基础，因为将获得描述排放量作为土地使用函数的基本数据。考虑到澳大利亚热带稀树草原生物群落的规模，这是具有全国意义的。

Climate change and variability is expected to have an impact on the NT environment and economy. This project will enable NT specific calibrations of climate variability-land use models, such as the National Carbon Accounting System. The NT Government will have access to a high quality database and calibrated models relating to greenhouse gas emissions as a function of land use change. The project will improve estimates and management of GHG and provide a basis for the NT to potentially exploit future carbon-trading initiatives or GHG abatement schemes as fundamental data describing emissions as a function of land use will be available. This is of national significance given the size of the savanna biome in Australia.