Soil carbon in managed grasslands- biodiversity effects on persistence versus short-term gains?

在耕地和牧场生态系统中建立短期多样化的草原是建立一种潜在的机制，以发展和维持可持续的英国土壤健康。虽然这种生物多样性增强的一些好处是立竿见影的，包括授粉服务的增加，但对土壤功能和弹性的许多长期影响尚不清楚。这项研究项目将探索英国草原，在一系列环境管理选项下进行管理，以期了解它们对土壤健康和功能、无脊椎动物和微生物生物多样性以及气候的影响。这项研究的结果将为未来的土地管理做法提供参考，并有助于建立最有效的手段，利用这些做法来实现未来的管理和保护目标。参与这项研究的学生将有机会从事几个学科的尖端研究，包括基因组学、生物信息学和生物地球化学。这是NPIF与自然英格兰合作的学生基金，自然英格兰管理着项目工作将基于的主要重新野生场地。学生将有机会在以前工作的基础上提出假设和实验，并根据信托基金的工作发展公共参与技能。

Establishing short-term diverse grasslands in arable and pasture ecosystems is established as a potential mechanism for developing and maintaining sustainably UK soil health. While some of the benefits of this enhanced biodiversity are immediately apparent, including increased pollinator services, many long-term impacts on soil function and resilience are unclear. This research project will explore UK grasslands, managed under a range of Environmental Stewardship options with an eye towards understanding their impacts on soil health and function, invertebrate and microbial biodiversity, and climate. Outcomes from this research will inform future land management practices and help establish the most effective means by which these practices can be utilized to accomplish future management and conservation goals. The student who participates in this research will have the opportunity to engage in cutting edge research across several disciplines, including genomics, bioinformatics and biogeochemistry. This is an NPIF studentship in partnership with Natural England, who run the main rewilding site on which the project work will be based. The student will have the opportunity to develop hypotheses and experiments that build upon previous work, and to develop public engagement skills based on the Trust's work.