More bang for your carbon buck: carbon, biodiversity and water balance consequences of whole-catchment carbon farming (ARC Linkage 2009-13)
Collaborators:
- Dr. Ross Thompson (lead investigator/ aquatic ecologist – Biological Sciences)
- Prof. Ralph Mac Nally (landscape ecology – Biological Sciences)
- Assoc. Prof. Jason Beringer (climate scientist – Geography)
- Dr. Patrick Baker (forest ecology – Biological Sciences)
- Dr. Tim Cavagnaro (soil ecology - Biological Sciences)
- Mark Eigenraam (economist – Department of Sustainability and Environment)
- Leon Metzeling (aquatic ecologist – Environmental Protection Authority – Victoria)
Our partners
- Department of Sustainability and Environment – River Health
- Department of Sustainability and Environment – Economics Unit
- Goulburn-Broken Catchment Management Authority
- North Central Catchment Management Authority
- Environmental Protection Authority – Victoria
- Landcare Carbon Smart
- Kilter Investment Group
Project overview
Carbon sequestration using tree farming is likely to produce dramatic changes to Australia's rural landscapes. Under a drying climate in southern Australia, there is potential for a collision between carbon farming, stream water yields and effects on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. The project is the first to bring together specialist investigators from appropriate disciplines, allied with partner investigators with complementary skill sets (e.g. ecological economics). The project will create important new knowledge about how these three factors will interact under several scenarios of uptake of carbon farming over the next century taking into account time-trajectories of climate change and vegetation maturation. |
