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Title |
Soil Carbon Sequestration |
Abstract |
This project was funded by the Australian Federal Government Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) Action on The Ground program which aimed to assist landholders in trialing new technologies and practices to improve soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Laboratory and field plot research indicated that ploughing nutrients into the soil with crop residues/stubble increased the amount of soil carbon stored. This project tested if this was possible using farm equipment. Carbon sequestration methods were tested in 14 fields in different bioregions. Soil variability was estimated using two electromagnetic surveying instruments. Randomized block experiments were established in fields after areas of similar soil were identified by geostatistics and finite mixture models. While the field experiments failed to reproduce the high sequestration rates of the earlier more controlled research. We describe one experiment in this paper and propose reasons for this failure to sequester carbon. The hybrid demonstration/research approach is applicable in many other situations where agricultural policy or practice change are to be tested at farm scale. The data are changes in soil carbon over two or three years and at all 14 experimental sites. |
Resource locator |
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Unique resource identifier |
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Code |
44dce8cb-8944-48c3-afc0-798ea6832b85 |
Presentation form |
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Edition |
1 |
Dataset language |
eng |
Metadata standard |
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Name |
ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata |
Version |
1.1 |
Dataset URI |
https://data.iar.dpi.nsw.gov.au/dataset/44dce8cb-8944-48c3-afc0-798ea6832b85 |
Status |
completed |
Spatial reference system |
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Authority code |
GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long) |
Code identifying the spatial reference system |
4283 |
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Topic category |
Environment |
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Keyword set |
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keyword value |
AGRICULTURE-Crops |
Originating controlled vocabulary |
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Title |
ANZLIC Search Words |
Reference date |
2008-05-16 |
Geographic location |
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West bounding longitude |
142.968749 |
East bounding longitude |
147.099608 |
North bounding latitude |
-36.82321 |
South bounding latitude |
-31.892327 |
NSW Place Name |
Wagga Wagga |
Vertical extent information |
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Minimum value |
-100 |
Maximum value |
2228 |
Coordinate reference system |
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Authority code |
urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG:: |
Code identifying the coordinate reference system |
5711 |
Temporal extent |
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Begin position |
2012-01-01 |
End position |
N/A |
Dataset reference date |
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Date type |
creation |
Effective date |
2024-03-12 |
Resource maintenance |
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Maintenance and update frequency |
notPlanned |
Contact info | |
Organisation name |
DPI |
Full postal address |
contact@dpi.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
02 6391 3000 |
Email address |
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Responsible party role |
pointOfContact |
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Constraint set |
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Use constraints |
This data is provided under licence by the Office of Environment and Heritage (DPI). For further inquiries contact raj.ramachandran@dpi.nsw.gov.au. |
Limitations on public access |
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| Field | Value |
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Scope |
dataset |
| Field | Value |
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Responsible party |
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Contact position |
Data Broker |
Organisation name |
DPI |
Full postal address |
contact@dpi.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
02 6391 3000 |
Email address |
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Web address |
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au |
Responsible party role |
pointOfContact |
| Field | Value |
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Metadata point of contact |
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Contact position |
Data Broker |
Organisation name |
DPI |
Full postal address |
contact@dpi.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
02 6391 3000 |
Email address |
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Responsible party role |
distributor |
Metadata date |
2024-03-12 |
Metadata language |
eng |