Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/V012460/1
Accelerating Nutrient Cycles at the Riparian Land : Water Interface
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor M Stutter, The James Hutton Institute, Enviromental & Biochemical Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PM Haygarth, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Davies, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Lilly, The James Hutton Institute, Enviromental & Biochemical Sciences
- Grant held at:
- The James Hutton Institute, Enviromental & Biochemical Sciences
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Freshwater
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Panel C
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Ecosystem impacts
- Climate & Climate Change
- Anoxic events
- Microbial communities
- Wetlands
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Nutrient cycling
- Land - Ocean Interactions
- Nutrient cycling
- Organic matter
- Soil process modelling
- Soil science
- Nutrient leaching
- Water Quality
- Abstract:
- Riparian zones are the dynamic interfaces between terrestrial and aquatic systems, ultimately governing transfers of the macronutrients carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) between the land and the oceans, via rivers. The concern is that with a changing climate, the stability of these systems is shifting, and potentially the nutrient cycling rates are accelerating as a consequence. This proposal focuses on our concept of the dynamic riparian reactive interface (RRI) and how it governs the fate of nutrients down the system from the land to the river, perhaps to the atmosphere, and onward to the oceans. The proposal describes an approach that combines data-rich UK research catchments (Scottish Dee, English Eden) with flagship international catchment platforms (in Sweden and Germany). We propose to conduct new biogeochemical research and new modelling across geo-climatic regions to evaluate riparian functions controlling the potential acceleration in nutrient mass transfers across the land to water interface and how these may scale to globally-significant changes in nutrient cycles as our climate changes.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/V012460/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Event/Action
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant FEC
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £650,438
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £37,486 | £221,764 | £52,735 | £83,245 | £229,569 | £23,796 | £1,845 |
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