Addressing soil shortage through sustainable technosol formation. Australia-wide soil shortage has constrained sustainable tailings rehabilitation. Although eco-engineered soil formation has shown its

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Addressing soil shortage through sustainable technosol formation. Australia-wide soil shortage has constrained sustainable tailings rehabilitation. Although eco-engineered soil formation has shown its potential to develop alkaline tailings into soil-like growth media (i.e., technosol) for short-term plant growth without natural soil, a key knowledge gap remains before eco-engineered tailings rehabilitation can be confidently adopted: can technosols supply long term biological nitrogen (N) to support sustainable plant growth. The project aims to establish a detailed knowledge about development of adaptive and haloalkalitolerant biological N supply forsustainable technosols. The outcomes are expected to ignite an industry-wide shift towards technosol-based tailings rehabilitation in Australia. . Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 4106 - Soil Sciences. Lead: Prof Dr Longbin Huang