Code
01W01510
Duration
18 March 2011 → 17 March 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience
Keywords
carbon sequestration
ecosystem health
rangeland rehabilitation
enclosures
Project description
Restoration of degraded land is an omportant strategy for reducing soil-and environmental degradation and alleviating chronic pasture and food shortages in dryland savanna ecosystems. This study aims to assess the capacity of historically overgrazed semi-arid grassland soil to sequester atmospheric C and improve ecosystem health with rehabilitation throug range enclosure, and improved grazing management in a tropical semi-arid rangeland.