Rhizosphere mediation of soil greenhouse gas fluxes with climate change

日益严重的极端热浪、干旱和洪水是预测基于陆地的自然气候变化缓解的主要不确定因素。该项目将量化受管理草原生态系统当前和未来的温室气体吸收，新知识将有助于气候变化核算方案中的碳排放抵消。我们将通过可操作的田间实验、受控的实验室孵育、微生物基因分析和机制建模来开展这项研究，为土壤未来可能缓解气候变化提供新的见解。

Increasingly extreme heat waves, droughts and floods contribute major uncertainties in predicting natural land-based climate change mitigation. This project will quantify current and future greenhouse gas absorption in a managed grassland ecosystem, and the new knowledge will contribute to carbon emissions offsets in climate change accounting schemes. We will conduct this research using a manipulative field experiment, controlled laboratory incubations, microbial gene analysis and mechanistic modelling to provide new insights into future potential climate change mitigation by soils.