<p align="LEFT">Increasing the quantity of carbon stored in agricultural soils has the potential to offset emissions of GHGs to the atmosphere.</p>
<p align="LEFT">However, realising this potential is technically challenging when soil carbon stocks are already high as they are in New Zealand, potential changes in soil carbon are small and spatial variability is high.</p>
<p align="LEFT">The current NZAGRC programme has two components:</p>
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<li><a href="increase.html">Testing specific management practices that may increase the long term soil carbon store in field situations, and identifying factors that influence the stability of current or newly added soil carbon</a></li>
<li>Developing and using models to predict how a range of management practices may influence long and short term soil carbon storage</li>
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<p><span class="h5">Principal Investigators</span></p>
<p>Professor Frank Kelliher, AgResearch<br /> Dr David Whitehead, Landcare Research</p>
<p><span class="h5">Stories</span></p>
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<td><a title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon" href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf"><img title="Manipulating soil carbon" src="user/image/thumb/226/Manipulating%20soil%20carbon.jpg" alt="Manipulating soil carbon" width="80" height="80" border="0" /></a></td>
<td><a title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon" href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf"><span class="h6">Prospects for manipulating <br /> soil carbon</span><br /> Release Newsletter - February</a><a title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon" href="user/file/26/Release5_February_2012_p6.pdf"> 2012</a></td>
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<td><a title="Investigating the scope for increasing soil carbon levels in New Zealand" href="user/file/24/Release4_Nov_2011_p4-6.pdf"><img title="Soil carbon levels" src="user/image/thumb/229/Soil%20carbon%20levels.jpg" alt="Soil carbon levels" width="80" height="80" border="0" /></a></td>
<td><a title="Prospects for manipulating soil carbon" href="user/file/24/Release4_Nov_2011_p4-6.pdf"><span class="h6">Investigating the scope for <br /> increasing soil carbon levels <br /> in New Zealand <br /> </span>Release Newsletter - November 2011 </a></td>
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<td><a title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?" href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf"><img title="Biochar" src="user/image/thumb/227/Biochar.jpg" alt="Biochar" width="80" height="80" border="0" /></a></td>
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<p><a title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?" href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf"><span class="h6">Is biochar a possible solution for <br /> the mitigation of</span> </a><a title="Is biochar a possible solution for the mitigation of pastoral GHG emissions?" href="user/file/25/Release3_Aug_2011_p6-7.pdf"><span class="h6"><span class="h6">pastoral GHG <br /> emissions?</span><br /> </span>Release Newsletter - August 2011 </a></p>
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<td><a title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?" href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf"><img title="Soil carbon in dairy systems" src="user/image/thumb/228/Soil%20carbon%20in%20dairy%20systems.jpg" alt="Soil carbon in dairy systems" width="80" height="80" border="0" /></a></td>
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<p><a class="h6" title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?" href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf">Can</a> <a title="Can we increase soil carbon in dairy systems?" href="user/file/27/Release1_Dec_2010_p4.pdf"><span class="h6">we increase soil carbon <br /> in dairy systems?</span><br /> Release Newsletter - December 2010</a></p>
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<p><span class="h5">Linkages</span><a title="Linkages" name="Linkages"></a></p>
<p>AgMardt<br /> AgResearch<br /> Agriculture &amp; AgriFood, Canada<br /> Colorado State University, USA<br /> CSIRO Land &amp; Water, Australia<br /> Landcare Research<br /> Lincoln University<br /> Massey University<br /> New South Wales DPI, Australia<br /> Plant &amp; Food Research<br /> Scion<br /> University of California, Davis, USA<br /> Waikato University</p>