News » Nutrient Network NutNet: grassland nutrient research network

17.08.2017

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The Nutrient Network (NutNet) was initiated over 10 years ago to experimentally test the generalityof fundamental ecological questions about how multiple limitingresources, including phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium, as well asherbivores, control grassland diversity and functioning. The NutNet is a?grassroots? collaboration of over 120 scientists, distributed across100 sites and on 6 continents worldwide. The strengths of NutNet arethe close collaboration and interdisciplinarity of its scientist membersand that is a ?distributed experiment? in that each site closelyadheres to identical experimental design and sampling methodologies. Our results show that biodiversity, species invasions, and biomassproduction all depend on how phosphorus interacts with other nutrientslike nitrogen and with herbivores. With 19 sites located in Europe,NutNet is pursuing regionally important global change problems such asthe impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition and temperature change onbiodiversity and ecosystem functioning using state of the arttechnologies.

For more information visit www.nutnet.org.

Federacja Zielonych GAJA
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Project Industrial animal farms in the Baltic Sea Region - sustainable practices to reduce nutrient loads is a part of a long-term campaign of the Coalition Clean Baltic and Green Federation "GAJA", aiming to reduce the negative impact of large-scale animal production on the environment and local communities in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly by reducing nutrient run-off into the sea. The project is part-financed by the European Union. This website reflects only the view of the Coalition Clean Baltic. The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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