Project

Biotic interactions across size classes as structuring factors for marine benthic ecosystem functioning.

Code

3G003311

Duration

01 January 2011 → 31 December 2016

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Tom Moens

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Geology
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
Medical and health sciences
- Morphological sciences
- Morphological sciences
- Morphological sciences

Keywords

bacteria microhabitiats

Project description

We will investigate how the activities of macrobenthic ecosystems engineers cascade in the creation of microhabitatiats, thereby structuring diversity an dcommunity composition of microbial communities. Focus will be on nitrifying and denitryfing bacteria and Archaea. At the same time, important ecosystem functions ill be measured in order to provide insights in the direct relations between macrobenthos -microbial communities - ecosystem functioning.