FIXSOIL

Understanding how plant root traits and soil microbial processes influence soil erodibility

Coordinatore	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE    more  Organization address address: Rue De L'Universite 147 city: PARIS CEDEX 07 postcode: 75338 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Alexia Cognome: Stokes Email: send email Telefono: +33 467615835 Fax: +33 467615668
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Totale costo	202˙405 €
EC contributo	202˙405 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-05-01   -   2016-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE  Organization address address: Rue De L'Universite 147 city: PARIS CEDEX 07 postcode: 75338 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Alexia Cognome: Stokes Email: send email Telefono: +33 467615835 Fax: +33 467615668	FR (PARIS CEDEX 07)	coordinator	202˙405.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'A large part of the world’s crops grow on hillsides where the original forest has been felled and severe soil degradation and erosion has occurred through poor planting practice. Careful management of such situations could avoid any detrimental consequences of farming on sloping land, but both fundamental and applied research is required to determine how best to plant, manage and harvest depending on land use, species mixtures and topography. Therefore, Fixsoil will investigate the ecosystem service of soil fixation provided by different crop / forest systems whilst focusing on plant root traits and soil microbial communities. The project will be hosted at AMAP (Montpellier, France) and CEH (Wallingford, UK) with field-sites representing natural forest, agro-forest and organic farmland in temperate oceanic and Mediterranean regions. The relationships between root structural /functional traits and soil microbial communities with soil aggregate stability, soil physical/chemical properties and infiltration, will be studied with the both standard and cutting-edge techniques. The ambitious objective of this project is to determine how the function and role of different parts of a root system (in a variety of species mixtures) and the composition of soil microbial communities provide (or not) the service of reducing soil erodibility. The results of this project will provide data to allow stakeholders and (agro)foresters better determine species mix, spatial and temporal compositions and management strategies with regard to soil degradation and erosion.'