Sentences with phrase «grassland management»

The Oxford Martin School put on a three - day Greenhouse Gas Removal Conference with support from the Virgin Earth Challenge, the Savory Institute hosted a big summit on holistic grassland management, and the NGO Belllona hosted a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Conference (Bioenergy + CCS is a key strategy for generating negative emissions energy).

In Oklahoma, for example, participation is voluntary, and the government limits its role to certifying the companies that verify emission reductions and nurturing agreement on how to measure the types of GHG reduction projects likely to be pursued in the state — such as grassland management and climate - safe farming.

I will give this question another shot - Critical to how significant a grassland management scheme is to sequestering atmospheric carbon is the maximum carbon that can be stored / acre and what is the half - life of carbon in the soil.

I know there is no silver bullet, but I'm wondering if a barrage of (metaphorical) lead ones (trees, grassland management, whatever other geoengineering project there is) all aimed at carbon emissions, might offer some hope.

«Until now, we can not predict downstream effects of current grassland management, although continuous grassland burning in protected areas might become a possible threat to rare hispid hares,» says Khadka.

This is achieved through the application of management information systems, animal health programmes, improved grassland management practices and specialist nutrition services.

Milk suppliers in Kerry and Limerick facilitated on farm visits which provided the students with an excellent overview of grassland management techniques and training on grass measurement.

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van Eekeren, N.; Murray, P.J. and Smeding, F.W. (2007) Soil biota in grassland, its ecosystem services and the impact of management.

Our staff members are leaders in habitat management planning, invasive species control, dam removal, and salt marsh and grassland restoration.

«Arcadia's natural diversity combined with our active management of important grasslands and shrublands provide habitat for a wide range of bird species,» said Keane.

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservation groups.

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

The results of these findings help unveil how natural systems operate and have global ramifications for the management and conservation of grassland biodiversity.

«It is critical to have rigorous evaluations of direct and indirect effects of wind energy facilities on species such as prairie - chickens,» according to grassland wildlife management expert Larkin Powell, who was not involved with the research.

Enhancing grassland production through active management, burning, and grazing rotations may become important parts of resilience strategies in the future.

The following topics are covered: Climate change Extreme weather (Hurricanes and Drought) Extreme weather in the UK (anticyclones and depressions) Ecosystems and biomes Managing ecosystems (tropical rainforests and semi-arid grasslands) Development gap Development continuum Aid and management Health and development Regional development - North South divide This booklet was used to distribute to parents in order to assist parents quiz their child to revise, parents that did not attend were sent the packs home (I have included the instructions on the front).

The grasslands of the Tonda Wildlife Management Area teem with herds of deer, wallabies, monitor lizards and migratory birds.

[Response: We suggest an emphasis on adaptation over mitigation for grasslands in particular, especially where precipitation is relatively low, because they fluctuate annually between weak sources and sinks and the extensive management strategies applied have minimal effects on carbon balance.

It seems that the most we could hope to accomplish with grazing management is to return grasslands to their equilibrium state, with carbon levels at preindustrial levels in both the vegetation and the soil organic matter.

Consequently, soil water availability represents a much greater limitation to maximum carbon storage in global grasslands than does grazing management.

We did not engage in a detailed discussion of the carbon cycle within grasslands, life - cycle analysis of various management schemes, and several other issues simply because we believe it's not necessary to address these given the large gap between the problem (elevated atmospheric CO2) and the purported solution (altered management of arid / semi-arid grasslands).

It seems unreasonable to expect that any land management scheme applied to these grasslands is likely to have such an outsized impact on atmospheric CO2.

However, modern grassland agroecosystems are a potential carbon sink already under intensive human management, and carbon farming techniques may be useful in curbing anthropogenic global warming.»

We focus here on the most dramatic claim that Mr. Savory made regarding the reversal of climate change through holistic management of grasslands.

Four additional carbon offset methodologies are currently in ACR's approval process for publication in 2013 including California and Mid-South modules for Emission Reductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs.

Jim Laurie has been studying Holistic Management and visiting with practitioners for over 20 years, and in 2011, Seth Itzkan spent six weeks at the Africa Center of Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where he saw first hand the use of this practice toward the restoration of grasslands and the return of surface water in rural Africa.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

The high quality, serialized credits are from a wide range of voluntary and California - regulated carbon market projects, including: reforestation, forest management, avoided conversion of forests, destruction of ozone depleting substances, mine methane capture, advanced refrigeration systems, transportation fleet efficiency, livestock manure management, avoided conversion of grasslands, rice cultivation, advanced formulation foam blowing agents, landfill gas capture, industrial processes and renewable energy.

Topics for consideration included but were not limited to: a) Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in - session workshops; b) Methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience; c) Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under grassland and cropland as well as integrated systems, including water management; d) Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient agricultural systems; e) Improved livestock management systems; f) Socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector.