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Report on Indicator Protocol Trial for Soil Carbon Monitoring, NSW

National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

This document reports on a soil monitoring trial in the Border Rivers Gwydir (BRG) Catchment of north-west NSW. The objective was to assess a monitoring protocol and approach to estimate soil carbon under different land uses and to provide a framework for future soil carbon monitoring.

Cradle Coast Organic Carbon Monitoring Trial

National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key soil component because it influences biological, physical, and chemical properties that define soil productivity and quality (Studdert & Echeverria 2000). It includes all the organic components of the soil and is directly derived from plants and animals. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the driving force behind most microbially mediated processes (Fontaine et al. 2003) and equals about 58% of (more)...

Monitoring soil condition across Australia

Recommendations from the expert panels

This report identifies a range of issues related to the local and broad scale monitoring of soil condition across Australia. Four priority processes which potentially have a major impact on the welfare of all Australians are wind erosion, water erosion, soil acidification and soil carbon change. These processes are difficult to monitor because either they progress very slowly or occur as irregular catastrophic events. In mid-2006 the National Land & Water (more)...

Monitoring Soil Condition

NLWRA Factsheet Series Number 49 • June 2007

Soil organic carbon

Indicator protocols for soil condition

Soil organic matter is a key soil component and plays a critical role in a range of physical, chemical and biological soils processes (Baldock 2007). Soil organic matter: provides energy for biological processes (Fontaine et al. 2003) and nutrients N, P, S improves the structural stability, influences water retention properties and alters thermal properties contributes to cation exchange capacity, enhances pH buffering and (more)...