Code
31514607
Duration
01 January 2007 → 17 March 2010
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Sustainable chemistry
- Other chemical sciences
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
- Environmental science and management
- Soil sciences, challenges and pollution
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural plant production
- Agriculture, land and farm management
Keywords
stable isotopes
elevated CO2
soil microbial community structure
grassland management
Project description
This project aims to test and validate the use of selected biomarkers as indicators for the variation in the active microbial community structure in grassland soils via compound-specific stable isotope analyses. This will lead to new insights regarding the role of microbial communities in C and N cycling in grassland soils and how this varies with land-use and climate change (i.e. increased greenhouse gas concentrations).