Farming Footprints & Adaptations

We are focussed on understanding and scaling of agroecosystem footprints (e.g. impacts on the environment). We quantify the co-benefits and trade-offs of on-farm management practices and land-use change for different farm systems, at field, farm and landscape scales, under present and future environments and single or multiple stresses (e.g., biophysical and policy). We integrate experimental, monitoring and modelling work on the interactions between land use and management and soil quality, nutrient status and recycling and eutrophication potential, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). We have a co-ordinating role for specialist analytical chemistry/gamma assays and manage the North Wyke Farm Platform and additional experimental platforms including the Rowden facility (1 ha scale lysimeters) and new Climate Change replicated plot facility.