Carbon Capture for Soil Ecosystem Service Enhancement

上个世纪，农业造成了大规模的土壤侵蚀和土壤有机碳流失。这些损失破坏了关键的土壤生态系统服务的提供，包括土壤碳储存本身、土壤生物多样性、土壤对气候变化的适应能力、土壤肥力和增加的洪水风险。该研究将与CASE合作伙伴（绿色世界）合作，利用实地试验来量化纸张碎屑（PC;纸张回收的副产品）对土壤碳，土壤质量和多种土壤服务的影响。测量，以评估关键的物理，化学和生物属性将在这些试验在博士课程。利用这些数据，研究将应用环境经济工具和GIS来翻译测量（与土壤碳收益及其对土壤服务的影响有关），以创建与PC应用于不同土壤相关的整体SES效益的区域和国家可视化。

Over the last century, agriculture has caused soil erosion and the loss of soil organic carbon on an enormous scale. These losses have damaged the delivery key soil ecosystem services; including, soil carbon storage per se, soil biodiversity, soil resilience to climate change, soil fertility and increased flood risk. Working with the CASE Partner (Greenworld), the research will use field trials to quantify the influence of paper crumble (PC; a co-product of paper recycling) on soil carbon, soil quality and the delivery of manifold soil services. Measurements, to evaluate key physical, chemical and biological attributes will be made at these trials over the course of the PhD. Using this data, the research will apply environmental economic tools and GIS to translate measurements (relating to soil carbon gains and their influence upon soil services) to create regional and national visualisation of holistic SES benefit associated with PC application to dissimilar soils.