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Announcement of Opportunity: Using Critical Zone Science to understand sustaining the ecosystem service of soil and water

Jan 27, 2015

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are inviting research proposals under the ‘Using Critical Zone Science to understand sustaining the ecosystem service of soil and water’ call. This call is supported by the UK through the Newton Fund which forms part of the UK governments Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment and is only open to joint UK-China applications.

The programme aims to understand the role of soil and water within the framework of the Critical Zone (CZ), and use CZ science in the provisioning of China’s key ecosystem services, including agriculture and climate mitigation. The programme will cover all of the following three objectives, with individual proposals expected to address one or more of these objectives within the framework of the programmes aim:

• understand the importance of spatial variation and scale (from field to landscape) on the ability of soils and water within the critical zone to perform their multiple functions;
• development of modelling approaches and improvement of model skill, with the integration of wider disciplines, in the prediction of resilience; and
• within the context of environmental stressors within China (e.g. erosion, pollutants, extreme weather, changing agricultural practices, and water availability), seek to understand and improve the resilience of soils and water to perturbations.

Further information can be found on the programme website.



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