Rangelands cover almost 40% of the land area in California and have demonstrated potential to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, the lack of long-term data has hampered the wider incorporation of these lands into climate action planning. This project will use a 15-year experiment to determine the long-term effects of compost amendments to rangelands in two bioclimatically distinct regions that are broadly representative of approximately 9 million hectares of California’s rangelands. The project will address questions of the long-term viability of compost amendments for soil carbon sequestration and the improvement of soil and ecosystem health indicators indicative of ecosystem resilience to climate change.
Report Information
CCCA5-CNRA-CCRP-P31
Lead Principal Investigator: Whendee Silver
Lead Organization: The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
The full report will be available soon.